2025 McLaren F1 Team

[Macklaren]

Lando appeared to have the same margin on Oscar in FP1 that Oscar had on him at Spa. Will be interesting to see FP2

Indeed, until now Lando has the upper hand on track. But I hope not to see this anymore. My heart stopped for couple of seconds, being right in that corner in FP2 and seeing live

Bro needs to get out of his own head and keep it clean in Q3 and the win is his

[AR3-GP]

fp2



https://x.com/rbrzoe/status/1951313067171573964

[Seanspeed]

Your reality lol

The car was not the best car over the season, but since Miami. It was too much to close the gap. But it should have been much closer. Outside of some on Reddit and some certain threads in here, this appears to be the concesus.

Anyway, that was last year.

Miami occurred well before halfway into the season. Meaning the Mclaren was the clear best car for the vast majority of the season.

Nobody agrees with you except sad Mclaren and Norris fans who dont want to accept reality.

Salty Ferrari fan ^

Just pointing out obvious reality. Only people denying it are you guys.

I'm not incapable of being objective just cuz I'm a Ferrari fan. I totally recognize that we lost the 2008 and 2018 F1 titles cuz our drivers weren't good enough, for instance(though I'd say in 2018, it wasn't that Ferrari had the best car, more just that it was competitive enough to win the title if one of our drivers had a good enough season).

[Macklaren]

Just pointing out obvious reality. Only people denying it are you guys.

I'm not incapable of being objective just cuz I'm a Ferrari fan. I totally recognize that we lost the 2008 and 2018 F1 titles cuz our drivers weren't good enough, for instance(though I'd say in 2018, it wasn't that Ferrari had the best car, more just that it was competitive enough to win the title if one of our drivers had a good enough season).

LOL WUT. I'm as pro McLaren as it gets but it's ludicrous to claim Massa didn't do a good job in 2008

[Seanspeed]

Just pointing out obvious reality. Only people denying it are you guys.

I'm not incapable of being objective just cuz I'm a Ferrari fan. I totally recognize that we lost the 2008 and 2018 F1 titles cuz our drivers weren't good enough, for instance(though I'd say in 2018, it wasn't that Ferrari had the best car, more just that it was competitive enough to win the title if one of our drivers had a good enough season).

LOL WUT. I'm as pro McLaren as it gets but it's ludicrous to claim Massa didn't do a good job in 2008

There's nothing ludicrous about suggesting that Felipe Massa was in a whole lower class of driver compared to somebody like Lewis Hamilton. Which was proven out quite well when Massa was annihilated by Fernando Alonso.

[search]

any idea if Piastri will switch back to the old suspension today?

[SilviuAgo]

any idea if Piastri will switch back to the old suspension today?

No info on that for the moment. I recon Stella saying if the drivers will keep this approach to have different suspensions, this may be a logistic headache for Mclaren in the second part of the season (considering also the spare parts needed for each GP).

Coming back to Fp2, Attimini made an analysis of best laps for Lando, Oscar and Leclerc.
Norris tends to take the first position at 2, 8-9 and turn 14 where he has higher minimum speeds. It remains to be seen what happens then just before the end of the lap when he raises and lowers the throttle and loses some of the gap.
Piastri gets worse on the driven section. Lecler is fast on the straights, loses less in the mixed middle and contains the gap but loses it in the last corner.

[Waz]

A logistic headache they created by bringing a new front suspension that was designed to accommodate 1 driver's preferences.

It's not a performance upgrade in any way except allowing Norris to be more comfortable in the car.

If Piastri doesn't think it's better, I highly doubt Webber will be letting McLaren force him on to it

[Slahinki]

A logistic headache they created by bringing a new front suspension that was designed to accommodate 1 driver's preferences.

It's not a performance upgrade in any way except allowing Norris to be more comfortable in the car.

If Piastri doesn't think it's better, I highly doubt Webber will be letting McLaren force him on to it

If it helps Norris and has no impact on Piastri then I see no reason not to force him to use it.

[BosF1]

The pace of Macca in FP3 is just insane. Already 3 tenths up on the pole position time of last year in an seemingly effortless attempt by both drivers.

[BMMR61]

Dominance of McLaren just seems to get baked in more as the season progresses. They really have a handle on this car, only exception was Canada. They looked so strong again in FP3, Max doesn't look like a threat for qualifying, Charles best of the rest. Not too worried whether Oscar has the new front suspension tbh.

[CjC]

any idea if Piastri will switch back to the old suspension today?

I don’t think he ever ran it in practise.

Stella said in the team principles press conference that the 2 drivers are running 2 different settings still

[mwillems]

Dominance of McLaren just seems to get baked in more as the season progresses. They really have a handle on this car, only exception was Canada. They looked so strong again in FP3, Max doesn't look like a threat for qualifying, Charles best of the rest. Not too worried whether Oscar has the new front suspension tbh.

The car has improved a little more relative to our competitors. But also Lando is making less mistakes in Q.

That said, the car wasn't much faster than the rest on slicks at Spa but the Q gap was larger. Lets see how this pace translates to Q and R. Max is so far back i don't see his usual leap forward bringing him in to contention and the Ferraris don't typically get that much closer.

[Waz]

any idea if Piastri will switch back to the old suspension today?

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I don’t think he ever ran it in practise.

Stella said in the team principles press conference that the 2 drivers are running 2 different settings still

As they should in a prototype series. Don't see the logistics problem tbh anyway. Both drivers usually keep out of trouble, so needing new parts for broken suspensions isn't going to be a problem.

The internals are surely the same or with only a small difference.

[Avocado]

Realistically, no one can take McLaren's 200th win. Not even second place is in jeopardy.