Why the team in orange has stopped building lemons

efore he went off-line for a well-earned break this week, our Chief Editor Kevin Turner picked out the top five cars produced by McLaren tell you all you need to know about the team’s recent plight (the 2007-08 weaponry, for example, was pretty handy), it is eye-opening. The nadir, of course, came in the mid-to-late 2010s, but McLaren’s subsequent change of management and drivers has put it firmly back on an upward trajectory. And now, with the overnight disappearance of financial worries, a new supply of the Mercedes engines it should never have got rid of, and Daniel Ricciardo on board to partner Lando Norris, things could get better still from 2021. Luke Smith delves into this on p16.