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Red Bull and Ferrari have their work cut out for them: 'MCL39 ran faultlessly'
McLaren certainly looks to be the team who is the best shape ahead of the start of the 2025 season. Following completion of the three days of winter testing Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri sahred their thoughts on how they felt McLaren had done across all sessions and it does not bode well for their rival teams.
"That’s testing done. I think it was a productive three days. We tried a lot of things and learnt a lot," said Piastri in a press release sent by McLaren. "Some things felt quite good, others still need improvement but working through this is exactly what testing is for," said the youngest of the McLaren pair, outlining the main goals of the papaya team in Bahrain.
Verstappen and co. warned, 'MCL39 is faultless'
"The car ran pretty much faultlessly, which was a solid place to be starting from. We've got a lot to review before Melbourne, but I think we’re going into it in decent shape," concluded Piastri.
Lando Norris, the senior driver for McLaren highlighted the difficulties posed by the conditions. "Much trickier conditions on track this morning with the wind and temperature," which, however, did very little to hamper McLaren's run plan. "Once I was comfortable, we were able to work through our plan and collect more data. We'll now put it all together and look through everything we’ve completed over the last few days to make sure we’re ready for Melbourne," said Norris.
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