McLaren will have to adapt approach to 'potentially awkward' Monaco GP rules

Are McLaren to adopt a different approach to Monaco in light of the recent - and mandatory - changes to the pitstop rules for the race in the principality.

"In fairness, you approach it in the same way, with the same tools, with the same kind of thought process compared to how you would approach an event," said Stella to media like GPblog at Imola.

"Let’s say simply, you just have more constraints, so you have to make some adaptations in terms of how you approach this," revealing a change in approach was in order.

"After the race we had last year, a little bit of change is an interesting aspect," said Stella.

Following an uneventful race after Sergio Perez, Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hulkenberg found themselves tangled in an early lap 1 crash on the run up to Massenet, which brought out a red flag that allowed drivers to switch to hard tyres early on and go to the finish sometimes lapping several seconds off the pace to keep their tyres alive until the chequeared flag.