McLaren have no fears about losing Fernando Alonso to Mercedes after Formula One world champion Nico Rosberg's sudden retirement, the team's new executive director Zak Brown said.
Leclerc took pole in Monaco in 2021, but did not start the race due to a driveshaft failure, and 2022 when he ended up fourth.
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Red Bull's triple World champion Max Verstappen claimed pole position on Saturday for the Miami Grand Prix, to start from the front of the grid for the sixth straight race this season.
'I know some people didn't understand it at the time but I was right to make the move then and it's the feeling I have again now. I'm excited to see what I can bring to this new opportunity and what we can do together.'
Red Bull have won 20 of the 21 races so far, another F1 record, and Verstappen has won in Abu Dhabi for the past three years. Both titles have already been clinched.
Max Verstappen won the first sprint race of the Formula One season at the Chinese Grand Prix on Saturday.
Two members of the Haas Formula One team and one from McLaren were quarantined in Melbourne on Wednesday as a precaution amid coronavirus fears ahead of Sunday's season-opening Australian Grand Prix. McLaren said one team member had self-isolated in the team hotel as a precaution for showing 'coronavirus-like symptoms'.
The McLaren Racing team has withdrawn from this weekend's season-opening Australian Grand Prix after a team member tested positive for coronavirus, the team said on Thursday. The positive test at McLaren follows four crew members of fellow Formula One team Haas being quarantined due to the outbreak.
The Finn will race for McLaren next year in a straight swap with Spaniard Fernando Alonso, who has taken his place at Renault.
McLaren believe Formula One rivals Renault gained a "clear benefit and unfair advantage" from technical information taken to them by a former employee
Seven times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton is set for a shock switch from Mercedes to Ferrari in 2025 as replacement for Spanish driver Carlos Sainz, according to multiple media reports on Thursday.
It was the first time Verstappen, winner of a record 19 of 22 races last year, has won the first two races of a season. He has also won 19 of the last 20.
McLaren driver Fernando Alonso will miss the Monaco Grand Prix in May in order to race in the Indianapolis 500, his team said on Wednesday.
The blue and papaya orange MCL34 car was unveiled by 34 team employees at the former champions' Woking headquarters before Sainz and 19-year-old British rookie team mate Lando Norris stepped up to admire it.
Ferrari's Carlos Sainz won the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday in a triumphant return two weeks after appendicitis surgery as Red Bull's World champion Max Verstappen suffered his first retirement in two years.
Norris finished ninth in the drivers' standings last season.
Danish Formula One driver Kevin Magnussen is leaving McLaren after being informed by email on his birthday that the team had no place for him.
Max Verstappen won Formula One's first Chinese Grand Prix in five years on Sunday.
The 30-year-old, who could clinch his third world title within a matter of weeks, told British reporters at the Russian Grand Prix that he would always owe an immense debt to his former McLaren boss Ron Dennis.
Verstappen took pole position for the Saudi Arabian Formula One Grand Prix on Friday with Ferrari's Charles Leclerc qualifying alongside on the front row.
Force India have extended their partnership with McLaren until the end of next year and appointed Andrew Green as technical director, the Formula One team said on Friday.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen started the season with a commanding Bahrain Grand Prix win from pole position.
McLaren Group is famous for producing supercars.
Mexican team mate Sergio Perez qualified second fastest in a front row lockout for Red Bull, 15 years after the team took their first win at the Shanghai International Circuit with Sebastian Vettel.
'McLaren car is 100 percent ready'
World champion Max Verstappen took the first pole position of the Formula One season in Bahrain on Friday.
McLaren, the team of world champion Lewis Hamilton, appear before Formula One's governing body in Paris on Wednesday for lying to stewards at last month's season-opening Australian Grand Prix. The possible sanctions range from a reprimand to being thrown out of the championship.
Formula One will have a record 24 races in the season that starts in Bahrain on Saturday.
Renault's Fernando Alonso refused to rule out a Monaco Grand Prix hat-trick on Wednesday while tipping former employers McLaren as favourites for Sunday's showcase race. Renault have not won a race since 2006 and Alonso has yet to appear on the podium since he left McLaren after one acrimonious season.
Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton said he is so tied to McLaren that he will never leave the team. McLaren team boss Ron Dennis has had a long-standing relationship with Hamilton and the driver highlighted this as a major reason for his desire to stay at McLaren.
Ferrari agreed on Friday to end legal action against McLaren over last year's spy scandal for the good of Formula One.
A meeting between McLaren bosses and an Italian prosecutor investigating Formula One's spying scandal will not take place on Monday as reported and no new date has been set, his office said on Friday.
Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone has raised the possibility of McLaren starting the 2008 season with a points penalty if the team's new car design is based on information from Ferrari.
Formula One leaders McLaren escaped immediate sanction on Thursday after a hearing into a spying controversy found insufficient evidence that they had benefited from leaked Ferrari data.
His storied career has included 32 wins, 22 pole positions and 97 podiums so far.
Spain's double Formula One world champion left McLaren in a mutual split after an acrimonious and controversial season with the Mercedes-powered team.
Statistical highlights of a Group B ODI match of the ICC Champions Trophy between Pakistan and South Africa in Birmingham on Monday night.
Lewis Hamilton will start Sunday's season-ending Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix on pole position in his farewell to McLaren, with teammate Jenson Button alongside.
Red Bull's triple Formula One world champion Max Verstappen won a US Grand Prix sprint race from pole position on Saturday after an early challenge from Mercedes's Lewis Hamilton.
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