McLaren expects not four, but five or six teams to fight.

      McLaren team principal Andrea Stella believes that there will be even more teams competing for race wins this year.…

      Andrea Stella: "We used to talk about the top three. Fortunately, the McLaren team was able to improve last year and we had the top four. Perhaps in 2025 we will have to change this phrase again - five or six teams may already enter the leadership group.

      Already in the tests, where the teams worked with different amounts of fuel according to different programs, the results were very close. It's good. This means that the fight in our sport will become even more intense.

      It was difficult to determine the balance of power in cold and rainy Bahrain, but we will find out in Melbourne. I think the top four will once again become a reference point for the rest, but the difference between them and the average group will be reduced to a minimum. And at every Grand Prix, at every track, the situation will change.

      Last year, the qualifying competition was very tight, so even in the first session we had to use two sets of tires to be sure that we would go further. Judging by the tests, there will be even more such difficulties in the 2025 season."