LONDON: McLaren chief executive Zak Brown said the team were “realistic” about the celebrated team’s prospects for the 2024 Formula One season as they unveiled their new car on Wednesday.

McLaren’s Lando Norris was the second-highest points scorer behind Red Bull’s runaway champion Max Verstappen in the final 12 races of last year’s campaign following a major car upgrade. That though was still only good enough for a sixth-placed finish and Brown said at Wednesday’s launch: “Every team will have made progress in the off-season.”