Video: McLaren MCL35M takes to wet Silverstone track

Each F1 team is allowed one day to film their new car on track for commercial reasons as well as system shakedown checks.

After their launch of the MCL35M yesterday, McLaren F1 is at a very wet Silverstone today and the car has already been on track with Lando Norris at the wheel.

Norris is now fully recovered from his bout with Covid.

“I think luckily for me, COVID wasn’t too bad,” Norris said.

“It was a few days or so of initially having no taste, no smell, the normal really, and just feeling very drained and tired for a couple of weeks.

“Since then, [I’ve] basically fully recovered, everything is back to normal.

“I wouldn’t say that it really affected me too much, [apart from] a bit of the training.

“I wasn’t allowed outside at all, I didn’t have a window or anything.

“I just had to do some basic workouts in my room, no cardio or runs or cycles. But just doing what I could in my room.

“That was all. Apart from that, since then, it’s been a bit more back to normal, at my house here back in the UK, on my bike, on my treadmill, whatever, all the normal stuff, neck training and just getting back in the hang of things.

“But other than that, I’m good.”

McLaren filming day at a wet silverstone and the MCL35M is on track already.

The Russian arm tracking car tells us it’s a filming day but we all know the teams use their allotted miles as a shakedown as much as anything.

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