McLaren facing increasing pressure from Middle Eastern bosses after floundering multiple wins, according to Nico Rosberg

Former F1 world champion Nico Rosberg claimed that the McLaren F1 team faced some increasing pressure from their Middle-Eastern bosses over their recent run of floundering race wins. The British team have arguably been the fastest car on the track ever since the Miami GP, where Lando Norris got the first win of his career.

Despite having a fair share of opportunities to win the last four races, the Woking-based team failed to convert any of them owing to multiple reasons such as poor strategy calls, driver errors, and operational chaos. The McLaren Group, which includes the F1 team, has been under the full ownership of Bahrain's sovereign wealth fund since this year.

As per "Sky Sports", Nico Rosberg claimed that he heard the Middle Eastern bosses of the McLaren F1 had some words with the team regarding their tendency to throw away wins. He said (as quoted by GPBlog):

"Suddenly, if you're fighting for race wins every weekend, it's a different game. Some small imperfections start to appear more strongly. I have heard that there's definitely pressure internally now to iron all that out."

"I heard rumors that the Middle Eastern bosses were very much fuming because a couple of wins have been thrown away now," he added.

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McLaren F1 team boss gives his take on the 'pain' of missing out on the Silverstone win

McLaren F1 team principal Andrea Stella stated that missing out on the British GP at Silverstone a couple of weeks ago was a 'painful' one for the team as both Norris and teammate Oscar Piastri led the race at one point in time. However, the duo could only manage to finish P3 and P4 with the Brit leading his Aussie teammate.

Speaking with Sky Sports, the Italian said (PlanetF1):

“For us at Silverstone, obviously there’s some pain, because we were in the lead, and somehow we saw that we couldn’t capitalize. But we have a certain approach to missed opportunities. For us, missed opportunities are a way to grow, a way to understand where are our gaps to be world champions – and that’s where we focus."

“The focus is on the opportunity, on the growth, on how we can improve. The focus is not on the missed element of the opportunity. So I think, actually, the briefings were very reassuring and encouraging – we could consolidate our culture, which is a positive, constructive culture," he added.

McLaren have an opportunity to hit back at their critics and potentially calm their owners at the Hungarian GP on Sunday as they have secured the front row for the main race.

Lando Norris got his third pole position of his career, and second after Spain this year, ahead of Oscar Piastri and Red Bull's Max Verstappen in his bid to get the second win of the season under his belt.