2024 Mclaren Formula 1 Team

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Darth-Piekus
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So what now? We still have 36 laps with new tyres and probably intermediates.

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SilviuAgo wrote:
03 Nov 2024, 18:47
Darth-Piekus wrote:
03 Nov 2024, 18:43
Personally I am against the rule of changing a tyre during a red flag. It is against fair competition. Piastri screwed it completely. Good thing is that we still gain more points than Ferrari. Bad thing is that Max got promoted by an unfair rule to P2.
C'mon...I don't like max but he was excellent this race. From P17 to P10 in 1 lap, passing Piastri like nothing, beeing P5 before mid race....Poor performance from McLaren this race. A race to forget!
Where did McLaren perform poorly? The race was red flagged because cappuchino crashed. Up to the red flag everithing was the right call.

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Ben1980 wrote:
03 Nov 2024, 18:48
Not sure stopping was that bad a decision at the time, just in hindsight.

The safety car, helped them and the rain was decreasing.

You can't assume Colapinto bins it behind the safety car.

And Landos start, not sure it was bad, maybe safe, but in those conditions that's understandable.
Yes, stopping was a fine decision. But VSC ended just as they were pitting so they effectively had a green flag pitstop and ended up behind GAS/VER/OCO. Then they looked great, safety car was great but obviously red flag was not.

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So we lost out on a VSC pitstop because Hulk was assisted back on track. Great.

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The rain has eased, so race wasn't going to red flag without the crash.

Just obe of them things.

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Pretty much. And Colapinto losing it during an VSC.

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Ben1980 wrote:
03 Nov 2024, 18:53
The rain has eased, so race wasn't going to red flag without the crash.

Just obe of them things.
Yeah. It was going to require hell of a lot of luck to beat Verstappen. The way he drove today he deserves to be WDC. Congratulations to him.

McLaren can now probably focus on getting the WDC and hopefully we can seal that with no major problems.

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Ben1980 wrote:
03 Nov 2024, 18:48
Not sure stopping was that bad a decision at the time, just in hindsight.
Well they knew you cannot capitalize on pitting early, Russel would have been stuck behind other cars at least for a lap or two. Not sure why they pitted together really.

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Btw it looks like it can be worse, both Mercedes noted for changing tire pressure on the grid. Possible DSQ for them.

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I don't disagree that Max drove brilliantly but he would not be able to catch the first two without a lucky incident. I agree that he was the fastest at the start but at some point the first two opened the difference from 10 seconds to 14 seconds.
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I'm not a conspiracy theorist. But, Lawson waving Max through while battling Oscar seems to stick a bit.

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It's expected from a B-Team.

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FittingMechanics wrote:
03 Nov 2024, 18:56
Btw it looks like it can be worse, both Mercedes noted for changing tire pressure on the grid. Possible DSQ for them.
Bloody hell, what is this race...

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Darth-Piekus wrote:
03 Nov 2024, 18:56
I don't disagree that Max drove brilliantly but he would not be able to catch the first two without a lucky incident.
He has got lucky, Lando got lucky in Miami. But, his car has been best out there.

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Ben1980 wrote:
03 Nov 2024, 18:57
I'm not a conspiracy theorist. But, Lawson waving Max through while battling Oscar seems to stick a bit.
What conspiracy is there? He obviously waved him by.