team’s decision to remove a new front-wing design it introduced in
Canada. The new design was taken off the MCL40s of Lando Norris
and Oscar Piastri in Montreal ahead of Sprint Qualifying, but was
reintroduced in Barcelona. It was the first time that a McLaren
upgrade had not immediately succeeded since the team began its
upward curve with its huge package across the 2023 Austrian and
British GPs. Detailing what had happened in the decision to take
the upgrade off in Montreal, team principal Stella explained that
“modifications” were required to fully extract the maximum from the
new part. “The front wing is a project that took a couple of races
to understand exactly how to use it, what it was delivering,”
Stella told media, including RacingNews365. “We saw there were some
aspects which were not only aerodynamic, but also some from a
mechanical point of view, which needed to be evolved. “We took a
couple of modifications since the first time we introduced it, and
these modifications were effective, so we are happy now with the
performance and the correlation of the data compared to the
development tools we used on both cars. “I would like to praise
the effort of the team, who have been extremely responsive, once we
saw that there were a few things that needed to be made and needed
to be designed and produced, and we did it for Monaco, and then
there were a few more, and we did them for Spain. “So I would say
this completes the first round of upgrades of the car. We are
obviously working on some more upgrades, but these are more than
large packages. We will see a continuous development in the various
areas of the car, because the design itself, and this is true for
everyone, is still so immature.”