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Why McLaren’s new front wing needs “a bit more work”

Motorsport.comJune 7, 2026

Curated for Torqlytics readers — aggregated from trusted F1 publishers, not original reporting.


Qualifying no higher than the fourth row of the grid is just one of several developments vexing McLaren during the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix weekend.Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris qualified seventh and eighth, over half a second off Mercedes polesitter Kimi Antonelli, which has the same engine as McLaren’s MCL40. If the size of that margin was “disappointing”, in the words of McLaren ...