The launch of McLaren’s MCL35M not only marks a new era with Mercedes but also the start of its partnership with Daniel Ricciardo, who has pledged the next three years of his career to help the team make the next step of its route back to the top, as MotorsportWeek.com explains. For Ricciardo, and McLaren, the wedding vows have finally rung two years after a union was first mooted. In mid-2018 Ricciardo, contemplating leaving Red Bull, was courted by a McLaren team that was at its lowest ebb. McLaren had split from Honda but its Renault alliance only served to highlight its own flaws, including the management structure, which was a mess. Since that initial flirtation McLaren has...
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