Mcl_G10 wrote: ↑30 May 2025, 13:10
Ben1980 wrote: ↑30 May 2025, 11:46
Mcl_G10 wrote: ↑30 May 2025, 11:21
I think whatever happens we need both mclaren drivers must be ahead of everyone bar max as a minimum.
Redbull and max will be fast, perhaps faster than us in qualy but what we can't do is let a Russell or leclerc etc to be in front of us. Otherwise by time we get past them in the race (waiting for superior deg to come into play) Max will already long gone into the distance.
Max p1 in qualy is not the worst thing to happen her but we must be p2 and p3 after that first corner.
Merc could be very fast here in quali
Do we have superior deg? If it's just natural deg. Max was better in Imola, and even Leclec was better in Bahrain (?) When he stretched the mediums out.
Sorry a miss phrase on my behalf. What I meant was through maintaining tyre surface temps to get the best tyre performance over a stint. We see in the hotter races the mclaren can keep them in the right window for the whole stint rather that overheating and losing performance because of it. Others are trying to make inroads into this mclaren advantage but I'm not so sure they will be able too.
I presume also barcelona will be hot like mismi ir even hotter.
The whole brake cooling and heating has been hyped up since Australia, but this seems to really have had limited impact. Deg hasn't been amazing compared to others, or even the best at times. The teams keep tyres in the OP window at the best delta. This is where we benefit I think, not deg. On the hotter tracks with hot air temps this seems to have helped us run faster than others for similar deg.
The only other thing I've noticed is that the car is great from starts, cold, wet or otherwise. So it feels like the car is noticeably better in some situations, including the extremes of the temps, and not perhaps that much of a difference maker in the middle.