In his first meeting with Formula One media since he was appointed Team Principal by McLaren, Italian engineer Andrea Stella has admitted that “being in the public eye is something I’ve always been reluctant to pursue”. During his vast experience in Formula One, Stella has worked under a large number of Team Principals, but he highlighted the lessons learned from three of them: Jean Todt and Stefano Domenicali, who led Ferrari when Stella was still there, and more recently Andreas Seidl: “I worked with more than three and you learn from everybody. “And with Andreas we worked even more closely, I think he also brought some engineering experience, so this was very useful for me also in shaping up the race team, making progress in some of the areas like pit stop.

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