The alliance that lasted over two decades, between 1995 and 2014, will be reissued from 2021. McLaren will reassemble Mercedes engines from 2021, according to several British media, including the BBC. The decision represents a new step in the ambitious strategy of Andreas Seidl, sports director of the Woking team, who will present himself as one of the great animators of the grid in the season of the great normative revolution.
Seidl's decision, according to the BBC, to end the contract with Renault, which expires in 2020, is based on two reasons. On the one hand, the power shown by German propellants throughout these six years of the hybrid era. In addition, the operation with the new supplier would be cheaper than with the rhombus brand.
With this cast, Mercedes would become in 2021 the main supplier of the World Cup, with four teams (Mercedes, McLaren, Racing Point and Williams), while Renault would only deliver its product to its factory team.
McLaren's future plans also include the construction of a new wind tunnel to further refine a car that this year has established itself as the benchmark in the middle of the grid.
Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris, both with a contract until 2020, have achieved the regularity that was so much missed during the dire seasons with Honda (2015-2017).
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