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George: “Formula 1 is bigger than any driver. So, you know, you wouldn't want to lose Max because I think we all enjoy racing against Max. And it's just part and parcel of Formula 1. I didn't enjoy driving the 22 car when it was porpoising up and down, killing everybody's backs. The car was big, it was heavy, the high speed corners, it wasn't very pleasant to drive around. But he didn't have the same complaint because he was winning. Now, the complaints that he has currently are different to the complaints of Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren because we're at the front end of the grid. And this is only natural, and you do understand and recognise the frustration but he's achieved what most drivers dream of which is winning a championship. He's got 4 of them. And at the end of the day, I guess you get to a point in life that you want- there's not really much more for him to achieve in Formula 1. You know, he's ticked all the boxes, maybe he can go after the records, but knowing him as I do and knowing drivers who have won or achieved similar things; at one point, you want to do what puts a smile on your face. And if driving the Nordschleife- I can totally understand why driving the Nordschleife puts a smile on his face. You know, I've driven hundreds of laps around the Nordschleife on the simulator. And I would love to have that chance to go and race around the Nordschleife. But my goal now is to become a Formula 1 world champion. If I have 4 of them under my belt, I'd probably be doing the same. So, you know, he's in a very different stage of his career. And yeah, I think you'd understand if he stayed and you'd understand if he weren't."

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McLaren's Chief Designer Rob Marshall explains the new MCL40 design: “It's all new car, front to back. New regulations. As people have touched upon, the car's a bit shorter. It's actually quite a lot shorter than previous cars, a lot lighter, coupled with a brand new power unit, 50-50 hybrid, and a new set of air regulations designed to try and reduce the size of the weight behind the car, make overtaking a bit easier. If you start from the front, the new front wing is still sort of arrowhead like the previous generation, but it's a bit lower and have a much broader and wider footplate, end plate, than we used to have. And also the front wing is now actuated much like the old DRS. These new cars have got a straight line mode where both the front and rear wings will move their flaps to reduce the drag on the car and help the car get down the straights faster. There's quite a lot of freedom in how you actuate that. I think we'll see different solutions from different cars on the grid. Moving a bit further back, you've got the crash structure, which is basically from here to here. That's all new again. The regulations have changed this year where we need to make sure that after a small shunt that's enough to knock the front wing off, maybe the front half of the nose, the remaining part still serves its function as saving the driver in a secondary crash against another barrier. So that's significantly complicated the design work going into the nose. And then we've got front suspension - again, last year's front suspension was I think very innovative and so is this. We've done quite a few changes which I hope benefit us. And as we go rearward and we've got the main body of the chassis. Again, all new regulations, much tougher homologation requirements. So the crash tests and the squeezes that go into the chassis are quite brutal this year. And a lot of effort and research has gone in to try and make the car able to withstand those. Also, as I touched upon, the car is so much shorter. So a lot of the packaging of where radiators and electrical boxes, which were typically scattered around the car, finding homes for those has been very difficult. There's just less space to put them all. What's helped us there is the fuel tank is a bit smaller. We're going to use less fuel in the race. From an aerodynamic point of view, in this region here, gone are the very curved underfloors that we had with last year's cars. We're replaced with a much more flat bottom car like we had in previous generations. And then as we go rearward again, our rear suspension is actually a bit of an iteration of last year's. We're very happy with what we did last year, and so we just built upon that. Redesigned the gearbox to make it lighter and shorter for the obvious reasons. And then the rear wing is similar-ish to last year's, and the actuation mechanism is a bit like old-school DRS, but it's now mounted on two pylons, and yeah, it will now operate in conjunction with the front wing, as I said.”

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