Stella said that neither Melbourne nor Bahrain were expected to be strong tracks for the Mcl39, with that in mind, I look forward to see what can be achieved on tracks that do favour it's characteristicsmwillems wrote: ↑16 Mar 2025, 10:16Australia always suits us. There will be tracks where we aren't fastest, but it looks promising.
The car is already clearly better at the front end and better in wet conditions, so that's two major flaws addressed. Let's see a few more tracks to see if they had to compromise.
They clearly were scared Oscar would have tried a divebomb on a wet track potentially offing both drivers. With backmarkers around it just increases the chance one of the drivers gets a corner wrong and then they get into a scrap.Ground Effect wrote: ↑16 Mar 2025, 12:15At about mid point of the race Oscar closed in on Lando and was looking like he could challenge for the lead, but was told to hold position. 2 or 3 laps later he was told they were free to race, but he had lost momentum by then. It didn't make sense to me.
When Oscar got close to Lando today I immediately thought of Monza and how he burnt up his tires trying to keep Lando behind. It seems to me that Oscar struggles to contain himself to the detriment of his own tires/race when it comes to racing Lando.the EDGE wrote: ↑16 Mar 2025, 13:36Formula one can be a harsh environment, and with changeable weather comes the unknown. McLaren were 100% correct in briefly imposing team orders. They had built a big advantage and to risk throwing that away would be foolish, on a day like today. They needed to keep that tyre advantage, not wear them down needlessly fighting each other, as I'm sure Lando could have gone faster had he had too but was just managing the pace, so I don't think Piastri would have passed anyway
It shows that McLaren have learnt from last year's mistakes, and have an eye on the big picture,. Just like any other team fighting for a championship, the team has to come first
Piastri will benefit from decisions like this in the future, that's what happens in F1. What goes around, comes around/ I have no doubt that had they have been ib the reverse order at the time, Lando would have been told to hold position too
Interesting, worth watching. Each and every year we come here it's shown off the cars performance. I'm hard pressed to believe this was one of our weaker tracks but hey, who knows. Hopefully it is!the EDGE wrote: ↑16 Mar 2025, 12:07Stella said that neither Melbourne nor Bahrain were expected to be strong tracks for the Mcl39, with that in mind, I look forward to see what can be achieved on tracks that do favour it's characteristicsmwillems wrote: ↑16 Mar 2025, 10:16Australia always suits us. There will be tracks where we aren't fastest, but it looks promising.
The car is already clearly better at the front end and better in wet conditions, so that's two major flaws addressed. Let's see a few more tracks to see if they had to compromise.