Formula 1’s return after the summer break sees just three teams with updated components, as Red Bull, Alpine and Sauber have announced the arrival of minor parts in the car presentation document ahead of the event.

However, whilst it’s not a new solution, McLaren look set to use a rear wing arrangement on the MCL39 that has yet to be raced so far this season.

Not a new McLaren wing, but unraced to date

The rear wing solution seen on the MCL39 this weekend is straight from their allocation pool playbook: While it’s not been raced before, the team have trialed it and collected data in order to ascertain where they’d be best placed to use it in the future.

The design of this solution also bears all the hallmarks of the lineage of the other arrangements raced so far this season, but it i

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