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# Podcast: Alpine’s Hollywood buy-in + three-stage McLaren upgrade
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/podcast-alpines-hollywood-buy-in-three-stage-mclaren-upgrade/
- Published: 2023-06-29T09:41:47.000Z
- Updated: 2023-11-27T10:41:44.000Z
- Description: There’s change at both of the leading midfield F1 teams, as Alpine has secured Hollywood investment and McLaren readies the first part of a three-stage upgrade. Ahead of the Austrian GP, The Race F1 Podcast asks what that means for both outfits
- Author: Jack Cozens
- Tags: Formula 1, #image-center-center, #alpine, #mclaren

Four teams have hoovered up the vast majority of points that the 2023 Formula 1 season has offered.

Save for a Monaco podium for Esteban Ocon, it’s left little for the likes of Alpine and McLaren to scrap over.

But now there’s changes at both teams: Hollywood investment over at Alpine and the debut of a significant McLaren upgrade that will be introduced in three stages over the next three weekends, beginning with 50% of the upgrade at the Red Bull Ring.

Both topics – as well as the prospects of a first non-Red Bull win of the season and Helmut Marko’s revealing Nyck de Vries admission – are discussed by Edd Straw, Scott Mitchell-Malm and Josh Suttill on the latest episode of The Race F1 Podcast.

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