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McLaren boss Andrea Stella has said the experimental new front suspension had no bearing on the team’s failure to score pole position for F1’s Canadian GP, dubbing the configuration “successful”.
McLaren boss Andrea Stella stated that the new front suspension had no impact on the team’s failure to secure pole position for the Canadian Grand Prix, deeming the experiment a success.
During qualifying, the team struggled at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, with Oscar Piastri finishing third and Lando Norris in seventh due to errors on his final run.
Norris and Piastri used different front suspension configurations, with Norris expressing that the effects won’t be fully understood until the next few races.
Stella acknowledged that the new front wing experiment was in its early stages and confirmed that Norris believed it wasn’t fully compatible with the car and driver yet.
Despite Norris’ lower grid position, Stella asserted that there were no drawbacks to the new suspension configuration and attributed Norris’s performance to driver error rather than the experimental changes.
