In the wake of McLaren's domination Stella can't but agree with Verstappen

14:49, 02 Aug

byNorberto Mujica

Max Verstappen, whilst assessing his Friday in Hungary, looked to McLaren's efforts and pinpointed a major strength of theirs. The Woking-based team's boss Andrea Stella agrees with the Dutchman, but is he giving away the secret to McLaren's domination in the 2025 F1 season?

After FP2 had been wrapped up, Verstappen spoke about his and Red Bull Racing's woes. In doing so, though, he couldn't help but assess McLaren's dominant showing as well.

The Dutchman believes the MCL39 has great advantage over the rest of the field in in the medium speed corners.

Stella couldn't help but agree with the current F1 champion: "That's an easy answer because it can be answered just by looking at the GPS data."

"When you look at the speed comparison with some other teams, the data says that McLaren can generate the highest mid-corner speed in medium-speed corners."

However, Stella is also aware that McLaren lacks to competitors in other areas.

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"I think the assessment of Max is correct, [but] we still have our weak points. If you go on a very high-speed corner like Copse, for instance, or Pouhon, we are not the fastest car."

"Likewise, probably in very low speed, we are not the fastest car," the McLaren boss added.

Stella then made a remar that could be the cornerstone behind McLaren's current F1 dominance.

"But the majority of corners in a championship happen to be medium-speed corners, and certainly in that range, our car is, data in hand, the best," the McLaren boss concluded.