2024 Mclaren Formula 1 Team

[F1NAC]

I don’t get Norris… he had tyre and car advantage, why not let Verstappen a bit more air through the first sector and then nail him at hairpin before the straight to have at least 0.5s gap?verstappen had bad T1 exit couple of times and Norris immediately went for attack and then lost couple of crucial tenths until the straight. Also that defence from Norris into T1 after he passed Ver outside the track was mental. In a bad way. You can’t just move into pathway of a attacking car behind on the braking….

[JRindt]

Why? With the current trajectory he rather needs to look at Leclerc.
Thought it would be P1 to loose for Norris after the summer break. But now it is more likely to loose P2 to Lec than any chance on P1. Think this fish is done unfortunately.

Who cares about P2?

But crucially not ahead at the apex. The corner is so long you can just manage the gey wide with ease and ensure the switchback won't work, as long as you are ruthlessly efficient lap after lap.

Agree that the only way to get by was on the inside.

Personally, I thought Max drove brilliantly.

Agreed. Max drives brilliantly but in my opinion, over the limit of what should be allowed. To me that is not clean racing and it will result in incidents. Next time someone will not leave the track or will divebomb onto the inside. Do we want the sport to turn into who is more willing to take damage or risk?

It was his corner, it wasn't even close, he was half a car length ahead at the apex and owned the line.

Max is just brilliant, that's all that happened today. The better driver won.

Great. Let’s just make decisions from here on by taking snapshots at the apex, completely disregarding what came before or after.

Agree that max is brilliant though, even if he goes beyond the limits.

[bauc]

Well if it's any consolation, Ferrari are pretty much guaranteed to take P2 in the WCC away from Red Bull, thankfully I didn't get too invested in the WDC challenge so I'm not disappointed Lando didn't clost the gap, I'm disappointed at the FIA and how Max continues to race "wheel to wheel"

Ferrari are a very real threat to McLaren as well

Yes it is a roller coaster of a season, where one track favors one team, and other track favors others .... it will be a hard fight to the end.

[mwillems]

They can appeal, but stupidity of stewards will prevent a good result coming out of it. Stewards decided divebomb defending is legal and it just shows how they are utterly clueless about the situation. I think they want a big crash next time.

Was a tight race with Max, though, eh!

Tight indeed, and great until the incident. The problem is that he is abusing this everytime he is slower though and someone should grow a pair at FIA and do something about it.

On the other note you remember my prediction? Only Perez got me wrong a little bit

Aside from the max prediction you were pretty spot on.


To be fair I think I said Ferrari favourites with a tight fight with Max, so I'm taking a full point for that one

[chrisc90]

Has anyone got a anthony Davison interview?

[mwillems]

Who cares about P2?



Agreed. Max drives brilliantly but in my opinion, over the limit of what should be allowed. To me that is not clean racing and it will result in incidents. Next time someone will not leave the track or will divebomb onto the inside. Do we want the sport to turn into who is more willing to take damage or risk?

It was his corner, it wasn't even close, he was half a car length ahead at the apex and owned the line.

Max is just brilliant, that's all that happened today. The better driver won.

Great. Let’s just make decisions from here on by taking snapshots at the apex, completely disregarding what came before or after.

Agree that max is brilliant though, even if he goes beyond the limits.

Rules are the rules. I don't agree with the rules, but it changes nothing.

Max has the same skill now as Hamilton had. Use the full width of the rules to your benefit.

[Ben1980]

Well if it's any consolation, Ferrari are pretty much guaranteed to take P2 in the WCC away from Red Bull, thankfully I didn't get too invested in the WDC challenge so I'm not disappointed Lando didn't clost the gap, I'm disappointed at the FIA and how Max continues to race "wheel to wheel"

Ferrari are a very real threat to McLaren as well

They have been a threat fir a while, since they upgraded. Won Monza, fighting in Baku, shoukd have been fighting in Singapore but messed up in qualifying.

[Emag]

Has anyone got a anthony Davison interview?

As if it matters what Anthony breaks down and what he says. With rules how they are stated right now, it was a deserved penalty for Lando, they can't even protest that. Lando just shouldn't have gone past off-track, otherwise it would have been a penalty for Max.

Some amazing rule though, where the driver being attacked can just divebomb into the inside, going off-track himself, but blocking the overtake in the process.
A very popular move amongst children and ragers in the F1 game lobbies, but apparently a totally viable defense strategy at the pinnacle of motorsport as well

[_cerber1]

Oscar had a free pit stop? Why didn't we use it for the fastest lap?

[Ben1980]

Oscar had a free pit stop? Why didn't we use it for the fastest lap?

Because he was getting closer to Max and could have helped out for the 5 seconds.

Problem was, Oscar was underwhelming. His performance on hards was dissapointing.

[blastdoman]

Oscar had a free pit stop? Why didn't we use it for the fastest lap?

Because Óscar almost catches spoiled child

[cliffgamerz]

Has anyone got a anthony Davison interview?

As if it matters what Anthony breaks down and what he says. With rules how they are stated right now, it was a deserved penalty for Lando, they can't even protest that. Lando just shouldn't have gone past off-track, otherwise it would have been a penalty for Max.

Some amazing rule though, where the driver being attacked can just divebomb into the inside, going off-track himself, but blocking the overtake in the process.
A very popular move amongst children and ragers in the F1 game lobbies, but apparently a totally viable defense strategy at the pinnacle of motorsport as well

i think the penalty would have been fair if Max stayed inside the track limits white lines as that would have really meant Lando overtook outside the track, but in reality that wasn't the case here hence it should have left as an racing incident as Max himself was technically outside track limits line and the rule for overtaking outside the track would not have applied if stewards followed the actual wording.

[CjC]

Well if it's any consolation, Ferrari are pretty much guaranteed to take P2 in the WCC away from Red Bull, thankfully I didn't get too invested in the WDC challenge so I'm not disappointed Lando didn't clost the gap, I'm disappointed at the FIA and how Max continues to race "wheel to wheel"

Ferrari are a very real threat to McLaren as well

They have been a threat fir a while, since they upgraded. Won Monza, fighting in Baku, shoukd have been fighting in Singapore but messed up in qualifying.

Yep, hence why they are only 48? points behind.
I wasn’t concerned about them so much when McLaren were fighting them/ sealing wins off them but this weekend McLaren couldn’t match them as much… Oscar was particularly concerning (not that I’m hating on him) but he was never going to be better than P5 all weekend, I know he didn’t have the new wing but P5s aren’t going to win the WCC if Ferrari are scoring double podiums all the way to Abu Dhabi now.

Houldey needs to get those upgrades trackside as soon as now

[bauc]

Oscar had a free pit stop? Why didn't we use it for the fastest lap?

Because he was getting closer to Max and could have helped out for the 5 seconds.

Problem was, Oscar was underwhelming. His performance on hards was dissapointing.

Oscar performance was just average this weekend, he continues the hit & miss performance which can cost us a lot, but same goes for the drivers of the other teams, its just a crazy 2nd half of the season.

[CjC]

Has anyone got a anthony Davison interview?

As if it matters what Anthony breaks down and what he says. With rules how they are stated right now, it was a deserved penalty for Lando, they can't even protest that. Lando just shouldn't have gone past off-track, otherwise it would have been a penalty for Max.

Some amazing rule though, where the driver being attacked can just divebomb into the inside, going off-track himself, but blocking the overtake in the process.
A very popular move amongst children and ragers in the F1 game lobbies, but apparently a totally viable defense strategy at the pinnacle of motorsport as well

Would Verstappen get a penalty though if Lando re-joined behind him?
My understanding from Davidson was Verstappen would have just used up one of his three track limit violations?