Andrea Stella: transforming McLaren

F1: Beyond The Grid

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🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This episode of F1 Beyond The Grid is brought to you by Salesforce, the Global Partner of Formula 1®. Visit Salesforce.com/F1 to learn more about how Formula 1 wows fans and grows its global fanbase with Salesforce.

Andrea Stella’s first season as McLaren Team Principal has been pretty phenomenal when you compare their start to the season to where they are now.

After finishing outside of the points in five of the first eight races, both Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri are now fighting for podiums almost every week.

So how have they produced such an incredible turnaround in form? Stella provides Tom Clarkson with a revealing insight into the culture he’s creating at McLaren, and how his experience of winning World Championships with Michael Schumacher at Ferrari can help him make the team a winning machine.

Plus, hear what Stella thinks are Norris and Piastri’s greatest strengths, what fans can expect from the Papaya outfit in 2024, and much more.

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0:00.0	This episode of F1 Beyond the Grid is brought to you by Salesforce, the global partner of Formula One.
0:07.0	Visit salesforce.com slash F1 to learn more about how Formula One wows fans and grows its global fanbase with Salesforce.
0:19.0	McLaren's transformation in 2023 has been nothing short of sensational.
0:25.0	It is another magnificent weekend for McLaren.
0:28.0	Oscar Piastry ahead of Lando Norris, a double podium for McLaren for the second race weekend in a row.
0:39.0	From the back of the grid at Bahrain to a plethora of podiums in Silverstone,
0:44.0	McLaren are now one of the leading candidates to challenge Red Bull's dominance in 2024.
0:49.0	In Lando Norris and Oscar Piastry, they have one of the most exciting driver lineups in Formula One.
0:55.0	And now it's down to the team and their leader Andrea Stella to provide them with a winning machine.
1:02.0	You need to learn to be comfortable with being uncomfortable because this journey is necessarily going to be uncomfortable.
1:12.0	If anything is more on us now, then on the drivers, we need to make sure we give these guys a good car and drivers they are not going to be a problem at all.
1:27.0	Hello and welcome to F1 Beyond the Grid with me Tom Clarkson.
1:31.0	Stella by name, Stella by nature.
1:35.0	McLaren's team principle has had a seriously impressive career in Formula One.
1:40.0	As Michael Schumacher's performance engineer at Ferrari,
1:43.0	Andrea helped the German win his last three world championships in 2002 to 2004.
1:49.0	And in the same role three years later, he guided Kimmy Reichenen to the 2007 world title.
1:56.0	Five years as Fernando Alonzo's race engineer at Ferrari followed,
2:00.0	before Stella switched to become head of race operations at McLaren in 2015.
2:05.0	He progressed through the ranks and was promoted to team principle for this 2023 season.
2:11.0	Zero points from the opening couple of races suggested an underwhelming year was on the cards,
2:17.0	but a significant technical restructure and a new direction for car development saw McLaren leapfrog up the order
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