Oscar Piastri has teased “new improvements” on McLaren’s 2025 F1 automotive, admitting they’ve “not stood nonetheless”.
McLaren launched their 2025 F1 challenger on Thursday afternoon.
The MCL39 was unveiled at Silverstone as a part of a filming day, with the brand new automotive sporting a camo livery. .
Lando Norris was first on monitor for McLaren earlier than handing over to Piastri.
McLaren head into 2025 because the reigning F1 constructors’ champions after beating Ferrari by 14 factors.
On steadiness, McLaren had the quickest automotive within the second half of the 12 months.
Nonetheless, Piastri has hinted that McLaren are pushing the technical boundaries with their new automotive.
“Clearly we’re going into the identical regs this 12 months,” Piastri instructed Sky Sports activities.
“We’ve not stood nonetheless. There’s some issues which can be totally different, some new improvements on this automotive and that’s what you have to do to attempt to keep on the high. We’ve seen prior to now that when it’s not been us different groups have continuously been placing new issues on their automotive, not standing nonetheless as properly.
“I feel additionally via final season we got here out on high within the constructors’ championship nevertheless it was so tight all through the entire season so you actually can’t afford to face nonetheless. There’s quite a lot of groups ready to attempt to overtake us.”
Piastri targets F1 title problem
Whereas Piastri was capable of win two races in 2024, he wasn’t fairly capable of constantly match teammate Norris all year long.
Not like in his rookie marketing campaign, Piastri’s qualifying tempo was disappointing, beating Norris on simply 4 events final 12 months.
Piastri has only one aim heading into the brand new season and that’s to problem for the title.
“Hopefully sure. I’m positively going into this 12 months with the purpose and preparation for attempting to problem for a championship, and attempting to problem for each championships,” Piastri added.
“With the success we had final 12 months it might be foolish to attempt to put together for something much less. We all know we’re going to have quite a lot of robust competitors this 12 months. We proved final 12 months that we’re a crew to be reckoned with.
“The preparation is certainly with that championship in thoughts. We are going to see how we’ll roll out at the beginning of the season however positively every part is getting ready for a put in an excellent combat for it.”