McLaren presented its new car for the 2022 Formula 1 season on February 11 and surprised everyone present with a very daring decoration that distanced itself from the latest designs used by the Woking structure.
In Barcelona, during the first three days of winter testing, McLaren put on the track the same car that it had presented several weeks in advance and was one of the teams that left the best feeling at the end of that first week of testing.
However, the team was surprised as soon as it landed at the Sakhir International Circuit, where the last three days of the Formula 1 preseason will be held in 2022, which will also host the first race of the course; the Bahrain Grand Prix .
Following the same strategy that they carried out at the Circuit de Barcelona – Catalunya, McLaren put the new MCL36 on the asphalt of Bahrain one day before starting the pre-season to complete its second and last filming day (filming day) allowed by the regulations. .
This probably wouldn’t have been news if it weren’t for the livery with which the McLaren MCL36 has landed in Sakhir, a slightly different design compared to the one in Barcelona, which has surprised everyone present.
According to the images that the team itself has shared on its own social networks, the new decoration of the MCL36 bets more on the color black to the detriment of blue, with more dark presence on the upper part of the engine cover and on the side of the spoiler. rear.
If nothing changes, that will be the car that Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo will drive during the next three days of preseason, which will start tomorrow, March 10, and end on Saturday, March 12, just one week before the long-awaited classification of the F1 Bahrain GP.
However, it should be remembered that the design presented by McLaren this Wednesday, March 9, is more similar to the one they already showed during the official presentation for the eSports team, which could mean that this design change would simply be a marketing move and that for the first grand prix of the season they could return to their “usual” decoration.
