{"id":10616,"date":"2025-07-21T10:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10616\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:18:09","slug":"mclaren-told-theyve-done-something-never-seen-before-on-an-f1-car-with-new-lando-norris-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10616\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren told they&#8217;ve done something &#8216;never seen&#8217; before on an F1 car with new Lando Norris upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>McLaren have recently made a change to Lando Norris\u2019 Formula 1 car which could explain his resurgence in the title race with Oscar Piastri. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.f1oversteer.com\/tag\/lando-norris\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Norris<\/a> won just one race out of the first seven of the season, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f1oversteer.com\/tag\/oscar-piastri\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Piastri<\/a> had won four. The Briton was at a loss as to why his teammate was more consistent, but McLaren traced it back to a car-specific upgrade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.f1oversteer.com\/news\/mclaren-handed-lando-norris-unique-update-to-extreme-f1-car-part-to-close-the-gap-to-oscar-piastri-at-the-canadian-gp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Changes made to their MCL39 at the Canadian Grand Prix<\/a> to improve the steering feedback in Norris\u2019 car were made, and since then, he\u2019s been much closer to Piastri. <\/p>\n<p>Discussing the changes on the Motorsport Magazin podcast, former Sauber F1 car designer Jorg Zander offered his theory on what McLaren might have done to help Norris.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2223679842-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"F1 Grand Prix of Great Britain - Qualifying\" \/>Photo by Clive Rose\/Getty ImagesMcLaren\u2019s Lando Norris upgrade explained by Ex-Sauber F1 car designer<\/p>\n<p>Norris improved his lap time by four tenths on Max Verstappen\u2019s pole at the Austrian Grand Prix, which is an impressive feat considering he\u2019s struggled in qualifying this year. <\/p>\n<p>The upgrade has enabled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f1oversteer.com\/news\/mclaren-have-made-a-special-change-to-lando-norris-f1-car-to-help-him-exploit-fernando-alonso-trait\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Norris to exploit one Fernando Alonso trait in his driving<\/a>, where he feels the car through his hands on the steering wheel. <\/p>\n<p>Zander explains why this specific upgrade has given better feedback for Norris and enabled McLaren to utilise more negative steering angles to increase tyre grip. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you that in the past, I have never seen a Formula 1 car with a negative steering yaw, always positive. I know that a negative caster angle can offer advantages under certain circumstances,\u201d said Zander. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t have wishbones, but multi-link axles where you can create these imaginary joint centres, you can actually achieve very good negative steering angles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.f1oversteer.com\/news\/mclaren-driver-lando-norris-life-outside-of-f1-from-height-and-parents-to-celebration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">McLaren driver Lando Norris\u2019 life outside F1 from height and parents to celebration<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lando Norris improves key area he was losing to Oscar Piastri after car upgrade<\/p>\n<p>Before the Canadian GP, Norris was trailing Piastri in one key area of the race weekend which was having a massive impact on his performances.<\/p>\n<p>The Briton would often be ahead of Piastri in the first part of qualifying, with that also translating into the second part of the session (Q2). <\/p>\n<p>Q1Q2Q3Norris1195Piastri359<\/p>\n<p>But once they reached Q3, it was Piastri who had the edge on the Briton. Norris has improved this stat since the car upgrades, but he still trails by a few races. <\/p>\n<p>This will likely be an important stat moving forward, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f1oversteer.com\/news\/what-lando-norris-has-changed-this-season-to-improve-his-performances-in-qualifying\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Norris himself admitted that he needed to improve qualifying<\/a> in his bid to retake the lead in the title race. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McLaren have recently made a change to Lando Norris\u2019 Formula 1 car which could explain his resurgence in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,1737,913,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-10616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-lando-norris","tag-mclaren","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}