The F1 cars may be staying largely the same next season but McLaren will have to perform 'open-heart surgery' on theirs to fit a new Mercedes engine. Earlier this year the Formula 1 teams voted to run this year's cars in next season's championship in a bid to cut costs. But while that is fine for most of the teams, for McLaren it involves a bit more as they are swapping from Renault to Mercedes engines. As such team boss Andreas Seidl is expecting a busier winter than most. 'Obviously, in terms of the task we as McLaren have to do over the winter, it's still a big task we have ahead of us because of the change of the power unit,' he told GPFans. 'It's open-heart surgery on the race car.'...
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