McLaren has no more “big holes” to fix as it targets F1 titles

Over the winter, newly promoted team principal Andrea Stella led a thorough review of the Woking design department. It subsequently let go of technical chief James Key, restructured its leadership, and hired David Sanchez from Ferrari and Red Bull veteran engineer Rob Marshall.

With elements of that revised set-up in place, McLaren upgraded its current MCL60 from what was a backmarker car in the early races to then scoring podiums in the British…