F1: McLaren devastates, but what is the secret?

While some rivals question the legality of the MCL39, those of Woking would have found a solution that does not break the rules and helps them significantly.

McLaren dominated the first day of the Emilia-Romagna GP. The Woking team cars signed 1-2 in the two training, again with Oscar Piastri ahead. The Australian comes from winning the last three races, has four of six and leads the F1 World Cup. Of course, when a team achieves such a large domain, the rivals suffer, they bite their lips, they work to close the gap and, when all that does not have a result, the suspicion begins. It is a classic almost as old as motoring: if it cannot be achieved, something is outside the regulation. In the Paddock of the F1 they are already in this chapter, with a crossfire against the orange cars. Now, as AM850.com could find out in Imala’s boxesthere would be a secret that makes the career rhythm of the MCL39 overwhelming.

“I have overheated tires. I can’t continue like this”, more or less words, that phrase has been heard a huge number of times in radio communications on the six dates that passed. They said Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton, Carlos Sainz … and the firms continue. What is the problem? The rear covers exceed the temperature inside the operating band and begin to degrade. Result: you have to reduce the rhythm to take care of them. And McLaren? Without problem, thoroughly as if there were no tomorrow.

As they told this medium in Imala under the low, McLaren would have found an element that absorbs heat, and that, outside the team, No one knows what is. That element would be placed in the rear brake zone. Of course, the logical thing is that the heating of the rear brakes reaches the tire. In the case of nine teams, that generates the overheating of the roof that begins when overcoming 125 degrees. From there, up, the issue is complicated. Red Bull, for example, suffered a lot until now. The tire reaches 127, 128 degrees and cannot be followed thoroughly. And McLaren? In 123, 122 … a clock.

That element that absorbs heat prevents it from going to the tire. Something illegal? Nothing. For this reason, in the first laps of the races, the rivals do not lose so treaded with the McLaren, but after seven or eight laps, the temperatures go up in all, except in the MCL39. And there, with a consistent rhythm, they begin to take out of two or three tenths by return. When the first stop in boxes arrives, the matter is liquidated. After the arrests, the rhythms are paired, but when seven, eight turns pass, the rivals go up the 125 and McLaren, without problems. And other time the difference by turn.

“I welcome those who waste time looking for illegal things,” said Andrea Stella, director of the Woking teamin Italy. Of course, none of that is anti -regulation and the message has as a recipient Red Bull. From the Austrian house they accused the English of having an alleged flow of water inside the tire that would cool them. Zak Brown, CEO of McLaren, appeared in Miami with a bottle that said “water for the tires”, as if to mock the runrún.

In imola some slid that they could know what the element that absorbs heat is, The problem is that this does not mean that it can be applied in another car. Because, perhaps, the entire system and in these budget ceiling times and with the new 2026 regulation that will change cars and engines should be reforming, it could be a risk that would not necessarily lead to success. “Be calm that next year nobody is going to have a problem with the temperature,” they told him to AM850.com. Of course, in a new car this would be applied from scratch.

The hope to stop McLaren now focuses on Barcelona. From that race, the FIA ​​will harden the flexibility inspections of the front wings. “Everyone flex,” said a source. The subject is which more flex. So, if everyone must change the wings to comply with the regulations, we will have to see who loses the most. For now, papaya cars dominate by far. Piastri took Pierre Gasly 276 thousandths, the best of the rest, in the Icola trials, a 75 -second track for the return. Everything indicates that the English anthem will sound for the triumph of the builder in Emilia-Romagna. We will have to see if the Australian also sounds again to honor the pilot.