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McLaren go all-in Fresh design signals aggressive push to match Mercedes pace

SATURDAY | APR 25, 2026

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C HAMPIONS MCLAREN will have “a completely new car” when Formula One returns from a five week break at the Miami Grand Prix in May, according to team principal Andrea Stella. Mercedes, who provide McLaren’s engines, have won all three races so far this season but the last race in Japan was closer between the two teams. Australian Oscar Piastri ended up second to Mercedes’ Italian Kimi Antonelli at Suzuka and might have won but for a safety car period helping his rival. “There was always the idea to deliver a completely new car, especially from an

McLaren, constructors’ cham pions for the past two years and winners of the drivers’ title last year with Lando Norris, are more limited than others on wind tunnel use and compu tational fluid dynamics (CFD) because each team’s allocation is linked to where they finish each season. However chief designer Rob Marshall told reporters that was not the big disadvantage it appeared to be. “The truth of it is you have many potential developments that you want to run through CFD or the wind tunnel and some are good and some are bad,” he said. “So if you’re bright and you approach it the right way and you think about stuff methodically … you just don’t bother doing the stuff that wasn’t worth doing and you carry on doing the stuff at the top of the list. “So in a way you free up resources, because if you’ve got a lot of wind tunnel resources and CFD time, you end up doing a lot of stuff that’s nice to have – but actually we’re not in the business of nice to have. We’re in the business of the stuff that actually works and so that’s the stuff you do.” – Reuters

aerodynamic upgrades point of view, for the North American races,” Stella told reporters at the team’s factory. “We could keep up with this plan. Obviously, the fact that the calendar has been changed sort of helped a little bit, like I’m sure (it) helped all the other teams that could work more streamlined towards upgrading the car rather than being busy with rac ing.” There has been no racing in April because the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix were called off due to the Iran war and its impact on the Gulf region. That means Miami will be the fourth race of the season rather than the sixth. “Across Miami and Canada we will see an entirely new MCL40 (car) … this is what I would expect of most of our competitors so it’s not necessar ily going to be a shift in the peck ing order, it will be effectively just a check who has been able to add more performance within the same timeframe,” said Stella. The team are third in the standings, 89 points behind

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Nelly Korda plays her shot during the opening round of the The 2026 Chevron Championship at Memorial Park Golf Course yesterday. – REUTERSPIC

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S ECOND- R ANKED Nelly Korda fired a bogey free seven-under par 65 to seize a two-stroke lead after yesterday’s opening round of the LPGA Chevron Championship, the year’s first major women’s event. The 27-year-old American, seeking her sec ond Chevron title in three seasons and her sec ond victory of the year, birdied two of her last three holes at Houston’s Memorial Park. “The wind was picking up here and there,” Korda said. “Through the trees it was definitely gusting so I had to lock in on a couple of yard ages here and there. “Overall, I just felt really good, though, out there.” Thailand’s Patty Tavatanakit and South Korea’s Lee So-mi shared second on 67. China’s Liu Yan, Japan’s Yuri Yoshida, France’s Pauline Roussin-Bouchard and 20 year-old American amateur Farah O’Keefe shared fourth on 68. Korda, the 2024 Chevron champion, won the season-opening Tournament of Champions and has three runner-up LPGA fin ishes since. After firing her second-lowest opening round in a major since the 2022 Evian Championship, Korda said she had learned a key lesson about the course, a first-time host of

the event. “I would say miss in the correct spots,”Korda said. “It’s all about the second shot in on this golf course. The rough isn’t too high so if you don’t hit your driver too great, it’s OK, but it’s still about placement going into the greens.” Patty, a 26-year-old from Bangkok, won her first LPGA title and only major triumph at this event in 2021 when it was known as the ANA Inspiration and played in California. Her bogey-free start included birdies at the par-five first, third and eighth holes as well as the par-three 15th and par-four 17th. “I feel like I was just out there enjoying the moment,” Patty said. “It wasn’t perfect. I wish I would have hit my driver a little bit better. “I was able to scramble around and save some good pars. It’s still not like where I want it to be. At the same time I’m not out there to chase perfection. My job is to get the ball inside the hole as fast as I can and I feel like did that really well.” Lee, seeking her first major triumph, began her round on the back nine and made birdies at the 10th, 13th and par-five 14th, first, third and eighth before ending with her lone bogey at the ninth. Thailand’s top-ranked Jeeno Thitikul, seek ing her first major title, opened with a 74. – AFP

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