{"id":701,"date":"2025-01-23T08:36:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T06:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weskusnuus\/?p=701"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:09:18","slug":"rising-from-the-ashes-mclaren-champions-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weskusnuus\/rising-from-the-ashes-mclaren-champions-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising from the ashes: McLaren Champions in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the opening round of the 2024 Formula 1 season, McLaren finished nearly 50 seconds off the Bahrain race winner Max Verstappen. By all accounts, it seemed like Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri were in for a difficult season with a car significantly off the pace. But Formula 1 is, after all, the sport that never sleeps, and McLaren has pulled off one of the greatest comebacks in the history of the sport. For the first time in twenty-six years, the constructor\u2019s championship has been won by the Woking-based team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McLaren&#8217;s championship triumph in 2024 is a testament to resilience, visionary leadership, and the sheer talent of its drivers. This victory represents the culmination of nearly a decade of effort to claw back to the forefront of Formula 1, starting from one of the team\u2019s darkest periods during the Honda partnership era. Once a dominant force in F1, McLaren faced significant challenges with uncompetitive power units, public spats with suppliers, and a rapid decline in their performance. By the mid-2010s, McLaren seemed a shadow of its former self, languishing near the back of the grid and with seemingly no way back to the front of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arrival of Zak Brown as McLaren Racing\u2019s CEO in 2016 marked the first step in the team\u2019s resurgence. 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