McLaren have explained the expected benefit of their upgraded front wing at the F1 Austrian Grand Prix.

The British sq🍬uad was one of only a few ꧅teams to update their 2024 challenger for this weekend’s race at the Red Bull Ring.

McLaren hope the new front wing will impr🉐ove the low-speed behaviour of the MCL38 and boost their ongoing bid to challenge Red Bಌull.

“The focus is to keep the development direction that we introduced trackside with the front wing we took to Miami,” McLaren team principal Andrea Stella told media in🍒cluding in Austria. 

“We saw that that concept wo🌸rked well, so we wanted to💙 pursue further this direction, and this is another attempt to improve, in particular, the low-speed behaviour of the car.”

McLaren are confident the updated front wing can br🧸ing low-speed gains without negatively impacting their high-speed performance.

“Especially with this generation of cars, and this generation of front wing regulations, the geometries ar𝔉e very restricted,” Stella added.

“It is very difficult to achieve what you want at your speed - at high-s🐓༺peed angles for instance - or what you want in a straight line or what you want in high-speed.

“This is a💟 challenge that I’m sure all teams are facing and that’s also why it’s quite difficꦏult to bring development on a front wing.

“So hopefully the compromise we are working on is capable of delivering some low-speed benefit but without affecting the high-speed or the strai𒅌ght lines too negatively.”

As well as the new front wing, McLaren have also debut💖ed new suspension fairings.

“The suspension is just the fairinౠgs,♕ just the shrouds,” Stella explained.

“When you change the front wing it changes slightly the flow that goes to the back💃 of the car and so you need to optimise the components downstream for the slight variation in the flow topology.

“This is very𒐪 normal, I think I see more and ༺more when teams bring a front wing upgrade they also then upgrade brake ducts and suspension shrouds. That’s purely aerodynamics.”