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McLaren principal Andrea Stella has paid tribute to the late Indianapolis 500 winner Gil de Ferran for the role he played in laying the foundations for the team's return to the top as Formula One champions.
SILVERSTONE, UK: McLaren boss Andrea Stella is proud of the way Formula One world champion Lando Norris and teammate Oscar Piastri have conducted themselves following last season’s battle for the drivers’ championship. British driver Norris eventually overcame the Australian in a three-way fight, also involving Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, to clinch his maiden world title, even though Piastri had held a 34-point lead with nine races remaining. There were several occasions where McLaren’s wish to ensure both Norris and Piastri raced on even terms were put to the test but relations between the pair remained cordial. McLaren have been off the pace so far under new regulations for the 2026 season, with Mercedes leading the way from Ferrari. But Stella has been pleased by the professionalism of his drivers. “It wasn’t a given that, after last year — when they found themselves battling for the world title right up to the final race — the harmony they’d built would remain intact: yet not only has this not changed, but the relationship between them and with the team has actually become even stronger,” team principal Stella said in a McLaren Q&A. “And whilst this might, in a sense, have been expected of Lando — given that he was ultimately the one to become champion — it was not quite so predictable for Oscar, who, instead, has relied even more heavily on the team to accelerate his development, both on and off the track.” Mercedes teenage rising star Kimi Antonelli is 50 points clear of Ferrari’s seven-time former world champion Lewis Hamilton at the top of the 2026 drivers’ standings, with fifth-placed Norris a huge 91 points off the lead. Norris, however, did win his first race of the season in Hungary before the current summer
BUDAPEST, July 27 : Formula One champion Lando Norris feels he is driving better than last year even though Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix was McLaren's first win of the season.
BUDAPEST, July 27 : McLaren boss Andrea Stella has excused Carlos Sainz after Oscar Piastri raged at the team's former driver for a costly collision during Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix.
BUDAPEST, July 25 : Lando Norris's Hungarian Grand Prix pole in an upgraded car came as a nice surprise to champions McLaren but Ferrari are still favourites to win on Sunday, team boss Andrea Stella said on Saturday.
SILVERSTONE, England, July 1 : George Russell heads to Silverstone on a high and hoping to give British Formula One fans a home winner at Silverstone for the third year in a row after Lewis Hamilton in 2024 and Lando Norris last July.
MONTREAL, May 24 : McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri had a race to forget at the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday with the team's ill-advised tyre selection at the start backfiring and their day unravelling from there.
MONTREAL, May 23 : Defending champion Lando Norris said McLaren could take encouragement from qualifying third for the Canadian Grand Prix after finishing closer than expected to Mercedes, despite not fully exploiting their upgrade package.
MONTREAL, May 22 : Red Bull team boss Laurent Mekies stood by his opinion that Max Verstappen's race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase was joining McLaren to become principal, despite incumbent Andrea Stella insisting he was staying.