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# Video: The first real sign McLaren is on road to F1 recovery
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/video-the-first-real-sign-mclaren-is-on-road-to-f1-recovery/
- Published: 2023-07-10T04:15:31.000Z
- Updated: 2023-11-22T11:25:14.000Z
- Description: Is McLaren’s dramatic upturn in performance just down to favourable conditions? How much influence is its three-stage F1 upgrade having? And are there signs of a genuine resurgence? Our latest video explores those questions
- Author: Jack Cozens
- Tags: Formula 1, #video, #image-bottom-left, #mclaren, #british-grand-prix

Prior to the British Grand Prix weekend, McLaren has had the seventh-fastest car in the Formula 1 field in 2023 – yet it was a clear second in both qualifying trim and over the full race distance at Silverstone and even spent a spell in the lead.

An equal-best F1 finish of second for Lando Norris and fourth for team-mate Oscar Piastri also came a week after Norris’s excellent run to fourth in the Austrian GP, where the first stage of a three-part upgrade was introduced.

And that caught the eye of the team’s F1 rivals too, with Lewis Hamilton describing the McLaren as a “rocketship”.

Was this just down to favourable conditions, or track characteristics? How much influence did the upgrade have on McLaren’s performance? And are there signs of a genuine resurgence? Our latest video explores those questions.