Darth-Piekus wrote: ↑07 May 2022, 00:30
Look at what Mercedes are showing after the upgrades they brought here in Miami. Suddenly they came alive with top pace. Can we expect a top winning car from Mclaren once they bring their large package in Spain and considering they are going closer and closer each GP with tweaks with slow and medium corners bothering them less and less.
I think we are seeing with Merc that there are sizeable gains on the table in this new era.
Whether we capitalise is dependant on what potential is in our philosophy. The optimist in me is super hopeful given how our car has responded to change since Bahrain and we appear to be getting to grips with it. We know the brake and Bahrain issues put us on back foot and that stopped us pushing further forward with development. Seidl thinks they have a clear plan and therefore I hope we can make a good step forward and see where that puts us.
As the team acknowledge though, we are still missing fundamental tools to make such development gains, but they are coming.
I feared for our pace this weekend so to see Lando P6 in FP2 at a street track is massive progress given how poor our grip looked in Bahrain.
That was a pretty damn good impersonation!
