McLaren to introduce major upgrade at Silverstone

In Formula One racing, there’s no rest for the technical department. If they’re not making race-specific changes to a car for a particular Grand Prix, they’re carrying out large-scale upgrades after being inspired by rivals or looking ahead to next year’s design. So even though his team’s MP4-25 is already eight races old, McLaren’s engineering director Paddy Lowe is a busy man.

At the top of Lowe’s to-do list for some time has been an upgrade to rival Red Bull’s successful low-blown exhaust solution. Widely believed to cut as much as half a second off lap times, Lowe revealed in a Vodafone McLaren Mercedes ‘Phone-In’ session that the team will unveil their version for July’s British Grand Prix.