I can’t help with the mode of failure. I’m not a highly paid F1 engineer supposedly at the top of my game.SmallSoldier wrote: ↑11 Mar 2022, 12:48Well, if you know the mode of failure… Then please enlighten us.
According to PhillipM it isn’t “heat” related and it’s something that definitely has caught the team by surprise… The reality is that they have the smallest brake ducts in the grid, they innovated in that area and something is either not working as expected, the fact that is not an easy fix means that is embedded in the design and part of the challenge of having the tests in Bahrain is that they can’t send parts as quick as they would if it was in Barcelona.
It is testing after all, this is when they need to push limits and break stuff in order to find the weak points and therefore address them… When you start bring things to the limit, you are bound to find some issues… I just find the overreaction by some baffling, i wouldn’t call the team a “laughing stock”.
I do like the calm nature you have about it, we are all different which I respect.
I just can’t believe that after 3 days testing in Barcelona, 2 filming days- one in Bahrain, they have such a daft issue curtailing their running. It just goes to show how far Mclaren need to come before they can have any real aspirations to beat the likes of Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari.
Anyway I’ll stop commenting about this and any other rubbish from testing now and just hope that I’m eating my words come December