McLaren is now sitting only 8 points behind Red Bull in the Constructor’s Championship standings and everything suggests that the reigning champions are the ones, who should start to worry.

As there are only 8 race weekends left in 2024, Red Bull really has to hurry up with fixing the issues of RB20, so they can at least try to fight with the Woking-based team.

Mika Hakkinen, Formula 1 champion of years 1998 and 1999, thinks that McLaren will purely dominate the rest of the season and no one will stand between them and the Constructor’s Championship trophy.

“They are the best team out there, and this is the most exciting time, in my opinion, to see what’s going to happen for the rest of the season,” Hakkinen stated for Unibet.

“Are they going to just flat-out dominate? I hope they will. Or are there going to be some other teams upgrading their cars? I don’t think so.

"I think McLaren has tools, and they have drivers, they have the designers, they have the management, they have the mega, fantastic partners financing this great, great team.

“So I don’t think anybody is going to catch them.”

He also highlighted McLaren’s management and work as a team, especially because of the way, how they were able to get from the bottom to the top in such a short time period.

“It’s incredible to see that the team has a focus. The team has understanding to say ‘what do we need to get into position to win races?’

“That has been mega work for the management of the team, to be able to motivate the drivers, to make the drivers understand, ‘yes, we will get there – just please, patience, please work hard’.

“Including engineers, the mechanics, the designers, the marketing – to make them to believe, ‘yes, we are gonna get there, it takes time’.

“It takes so many years, but now look where they are.”