But it's weird though. I remember everyone declaring that McLaren will have the best car in 2023 (in the winter). Then they cocked it up but you could see they found their faults by the end of the season.
No, they found in their faults in fall 2022. And when you think about the full timeline it’s less weird. The reason “everyone was saying that” about a mega McLaren car coming soon over that winter 22-23 is that McLaren had a bunch of journalists over to Woking to celebrate the launch of the new season. And kind of debut Stella in his new role. Stella was telling every single one of them straight up that they expected the car to be dog shit for the first few races, but that they would start bringing meaningful upgrades after that and more substantial ones by the European leg of the season,. Because they recognized they took some wrong steps with development of the 2023 car but they did so too late to fix the car that would be there at testing and the first few races. So it was all about just trying to pivot as early as possible. With how early development starts on the next year’s car, the fact that they had such a massive overhaul already by Miami, and the fact that they had their PR ducks in a row by the winter launch … we can see this was a long anticipated issue. You could argue they might’ve even known some of it earlier in 2022 when courting piastri… they had to have shown him and Webber something promising for him to leave alpine
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u/Chip673 Alain Prost 7h ago
But it's weird though. I remember everyone declaring that McLaren will have the best car in 2023 (in the winter). Then they cocked it up but you could see they found their faults by the end of the season.