Oscar Piastri has revealed that McLaren will not race with the ‘Macarena’ rear wing this weekend at the Austrian Grand Prix.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The concept was first used by Ferrari during pre-season testing earlier this year before Red Bull unveiled it in Miami.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
McLaren has also been developing its own version of the system, which sees the upper rear wing element rotate on its axis when entering Straight Mode.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The updated rear wing will be present in Spielberg this weekend on Lando Norris’ car during practice – but the decision has already been taken that it will be removed from the McLaren MCL40 ahead of qualifying.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, we won’t race it,\u201d Piastri told media including RacingNews365. \u201cI believe it’s on Lando’s car [during practice].\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s to test out, it’s not ready to race at the moment. Obviously, we’ve seen some of the creative solutions, they don’t come without their challenges, clearly.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt won’t be raced, but useful to try it out.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
McLaren has slipped back in the pecking order in recent rounds, with Ferrari emerging as the biggest threat to leaders Mercedes.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Piastri is not expecting McLaren to be suddenly challenging in Austria, as he highlighted the difficulties of pulling ahead in a development race.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it will be tough,\u201d he said. \u201cFerrari obviously brought quite a few upgrades in Barcelona.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cMercedes, as well, is still the benchmark, maybe not as far ahead in those kind of conditions.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThings are changing so quickly. Everyone is learning about their cars a lot every time we drive.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone’s changing their cars a lot. So it’s difficult to say,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe we can get close again, but again, we’re kind of relying at the moment on the others getting it a bit wrong or having things go our way rather than being the ones on the front foot and able to set the pace.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri has revealed that McLaren will not race with the ‘Macarena’ rear wing this weekend at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-760629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760629","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=760629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}