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McLaren: New wind tunnel ‘one year' behind schedule

McLaren Formula 1 technical director James Key says the team's new wind tunnel is 'one year' behind its original schedule. McLaren uses Toyota’s wind tunnel at Cologne, but one of Andreas Seidl's main priorities when he first arrived as team principal last year was to upgrade McLaren's facilities, with a new wind tunnel of their own to be the centerpiece. The board gave the go-ahead, but the global pandemic has caused those plans to be put on hold after McLaren encountered financial difficulties and required a loan from the National Bank of Bahrain. But now that the team have put those worries behind them, focus has returned to the facilities once again. So Key admitted that McLaren's...
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