McLaren's underdog status is firmly a thing of the past. It must now build on an encouraging start when the lights go out in Melbourne.

According to McLaren CEO Zak Brown, they are wondering the same thing as every other team. When should you start dedicating your resources to 2026? However, for McLaren, the question means more, as they might actually have a chance at the 2025 championship.

Formula 1 (F1) is just under two weeks away from returning to our screens. The ten constructors recently finished a rigorous three days of pre-season testing in Bahrain, but which teams came out of Sakhir on top?

New solutions have arisen to the same old questions but who will take what they've learnt from testing and make it count in Australia?

After three days of testing in Bahrain, McLaren have started as they finished last season, while Lewis Hamilton is positive about the beginning of his Ferrari career.