McLaren F1 Team Principal Andrea Stella left the 2026 Singapore GP with a realistic outlook. The papaya team banked solid points on Sunday at Marina Bay. However, the Italian knew the result owed as much to circumstances as to pace. A late-race charge had lifted both cars into the top five, but a missed podium…
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri started 6th and recovered from a puncture to take 5th place at the 2026 F1 Singapore GP. He echoed his teammate Lando Norris in saying that their placings were as good as could be expected on Sunday. The driver from Melbourne kept fairly close to his teammate all through the first at…
McLaren’s Lando Norris drove a steady race to finish 4th at the 2026 F1 Singapore GP. Reflecting on his race, the 2025 World Champion said: “I think the result was as good as we could achieve today.” After starting 5th, Norris diced with teammate Oscar Piastri at the start—though nowhere near as closely as during…
Despite welcoming Norris’ apology and team-focused approach, Andrea Stella insists McLaren still has work to do following Saturday’s Sprint collision at the 2026 F1 Singapore GP. The McLaren teammates collided on the final lap of Saturday’s Sprint as Norris attempted to overtake Oscar Piastri on the inside into Turn 5. The contact sent the Australian…
McLaren Team Principal Andrea Stella was extremely disappointed with his driver duo of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri following their collision in the 2026 F1 Sprint Race at the Singapore GP. Not only the impact called for extensive fixes on the Aussie’s challenger in the very little time left before Qualifying, but it also cost…
It was a disappointing Sprint Race for McLaren at the 2026 F1 Singapore GP. Despite both McLaren drivers Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris running in P4 and P5, and bottled up behind Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc for in the closing stages 20-lap Sprint Race, McLaren only scored a single point following the Sprint. On the final…
McLaren arrived at F1 Singapore GP’s Sprint Qualifying with one clear objective: extract maximum performance from a car that remains demanding around Marina Bay. Oscar Piastri was able to find the limit. Lando Norris was left with a lap he felt he could have done more in. The result was fourth and fifth on the…
While several special liveries were spotted on the track throughout the Barcelona shakedown week and pre-season testing in Bahrain, eleven F1 teams in 2026 will now introduce one-off designs during the 23-race season as well. F1 cars are built to leave an impression not only in the literal but also in the figurative sense. It’s…
With multiple cars experiencing power loss on the formation lap, F1 drivers shared their thoughts on the unprecedented software glitch and how the rain impacted the behaviour of the 2026 cars following a chaotic race in Malaysia on Sunday. As the teams and the drivers geared up for the first rain-affected race under the new…
“So ultimately, it was an incorrect judgement as to the crossover at which the dry tyres would be faster than the intermediate tyres,” Andrea Stella said as he reviewed the McLaren strategy after the 2026 F1 Malaysia round. Stella admitted that the McLaren F1 strategy misread how quickly Sepang would dry. As a result, both…
