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Filip Cleeren

The title-winning characteristic McLaren has failed to replicate in F1 2026

The McLaren Formula 1 team is gradually starting to hone in on regaining its famous tyre management prowess that helped make it so successful in 2024 and 2025.

Speaking to Autosport over the course of last year, team boss Andrea Stella was bullish about McLaren being able to carry over some of its title winning strengths across an entirely different set of regulations because of the knowhow and methodologies it had built up under his tenure.

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