Will Joseph, Lando Norris’s F1 race engineer, says McLaren is making every effort to eliminate its weaknesses ahead of a possible fight for both titles this season.
McLaren won its first constructors’ championship in 26 years last season, thanks to Norris and teammate Oscar Piastri.
However, Norris failed to win the drivers’ title, with Max Verstappen winning his fourth consecutive championship.
McLaren, however, finished the year in a strong position but Joseph said his team needed an even bigger step if they were to challenge for titles once again in 2025.
“You’re right, it’s not a single race, it’s not a single event that happened that meant we didn’t win this championship.”
“I think we could have done better in a lot of these races, but what we need to do is get on track in 2025. And not fall out of it.”
“We talk a lot about raising the bar, and the reality is if we enter 2025 in the same place we finished, we won’t win. We have to do more. We have to do better.”
“So everything that went wrong, we need to look back at it, go back and find a reason why we couldn’t do better. Do we need to change the way we work? Do we need to change the information that we share?”
-The 2025 F1 season is already being touted as one of the tightest seasons as technical regulations remain unchanged ahead of 2026. With the hierarchy at the top of the field so tight, several teams could be in contention for the title this year.
“That’s absolutely true! And it’s a lot of behind-the-scenes work that goes on to raise the bar, and the responsibility falls on us.”
“Lando wants the drivers’ title and he has a shared responsibility, and he is the first to say that there are things he could have done better.”
“So we’ll go through them together. We’ll look at them as a group, individually, and we’ll come together and come up with a plan, hopefully a good plan.”
“Randy [Singh, le directeur sportif de McLaren] has the primary goal of getting better at many of the things we do.”
“It’s one of his great responsibilities. And it’s our responsibility to participate and play our part in dotting every i and crossing every t.”
