Stella is grateful to Seidl for work at McLaren: 'We want to consolidate'

Andrea Stella is McLaren's new team boss. At the British formation, the Italian has the leaden task of succeeding the departed Andreas Seidl. In an inserted McLaren press briefing, he explained to GPblog and others that he intends to continue Seidl's work.

The German, who is making the move to Sauber, did a good job at McLaren in recent years. The team managed to climb towards the top teams, although it did not yet manage to take the final step. However, Stella is confident that the team is on the right track.

"We established some very important directions," Stella states. "We want to consolidate them. At the same time, the complexity of Formula 1 leaves the business always open for opportunities. This is what I am thinking intensively, and what I will be thinking about together with my leaders at McLaren so we can find further opportunities to go even faster towards achieving our [goals]."

Experience Stella should help McLaren move forward

Stella gained extensive experience at Ferrari in the past, where he worked as both a performance engineer and race engineer. In 2015, he made a transfer to McLaren, serving successively as Head of Race Operations, Performance Director and Racing Director. So from next year, the role of team boss awaits him.