2023 - McLaren Formula 1 Team

[FittingMechanics]

Any safety car means game over for Norris (unless if there is rain).

But he is driving well and keeping the gaps consistent. His tyres are not that much older than Stroll so I think he can manage it.

[SmallSoldier]

Tough position for the team… if they need to pit, it has to be in the next couple of laps, but they will be in traffic and will be hard to overtake, if they don’t, they might be sitting ducks in the last laps

[FittingMechanics]

Tough position for the team… if they need to pit, it has to be in the next couple of laps, but they will be in traffic and will be hard to overtake, if they don’t, they might be sitting ducks in the last laps

No pit. They told Lando that the best chance for a good result is to go to the end. No discussions of pitting.

If Lando insists they may do it but no chance of points in that case.

[Xero]

Tough position for the team… if they need to pit, it has to be in the next couple of laps, but they will be in traffic and will be hard to overtake, if they don’t, they might be sitting ducks in the last laps

They have to hang it out, those medium runners won't be stopping again.

[Darth-Piekus]

Ill take 7th thank you very much after that disastrous race.

[FittingMechanics]

Tough position for the team… if they need to pit, it has to be in the next couple of laps, but they will be in traffic and will be hard to overtake, if they don’t, they might be sitting ducks in the last laps

They have to hang it out, those medium runners won't be stopping again.

If they pit they are P14 with a car that can't overtake anyone in the dry.

Luckily Stroll is slower.

[SmallSoldier]

He is doing a great job maintaining the gap to Stroll, but these are looooong laps… and there are still 7 to go… I guess we just need to hold on!

[ScottR267]

Ill take 7th thank you very much after that disastrous race.

Embarrassing though isn’t it

[Darth-Piekus]

It is embarrasing the fact that they didnt have a low downforce set up. For a team wanting to be number 1 these mistakes must not happen.

[DiogoBrand]

It's mostly rear wing. The drag is crazy high, because even the lower part of the wing has quite a big angle of attack compared to a low downforce package. What that means is that even with drs, the lower part of the wings is generating a lot of drag too.

Probably the rear wing makes the beam wing and floor produce more drag as well as a consequence, but crazy to think they couldn’t produce a rear wing in time.

You may have missed the huge package introduced in Austria, maybe they just thought that producing that whole package was more important than a rear wing that would be useful in a couple of races, instead of focusing in the rest of the season… Just maybe

Did I say they were wrong? I missed the part where I gave you a reason to be ironic.

[Darth-Piekus]

The softs starting to die by the way.

[Xero]

Lando starting to struggle, this is going to be close...

[Darth-Piekus]

He might lose 7th from Ocon.

[FittingMechanics]

Ocon will probably get us.

[Darth-Piekus]

Maybe yes, maybe no. Lets see.