2025 McLaren F1 Team

[Badger]

Anyway, not wanting to stoke any ‘consequential’ papaya rules talk.

I did notice this myself as well, Max once again went out as late as possible to have the best track conditions.
It’s the result that matters at the end of the day but it’s not as clear cut about the performance differential on the first push lap on a soft tyre for the weekend so far

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/mcla ... rris-pole/

Pure speculation from The Race as usual.

Funny in the comments people are calling them out for just pulling theories out of thin air, Mark Hughes replies that they "kind of do" know what the consequences are, yet the article is pure speculative clickbait.

Well Mark boy, if you actually knew what the consequences were, then you'd outright say so.

If we know McLaren right the consequence is probably some convoluted deal that “if you touch Oscar as the attacking car again, you must immediately cede the position” or similar.

[CjC]

That’s my opinion too.
Any thoughts that they might hinder Lando in a performance way is out of place

[SilviuAgo]

IMO the quali for the Sprint just gave more reasons for those suspecting that the repercussion is that Lando is first out in Q3. And what happened last night was in this direction. Lando took the track almost one minute before Oscar, although in SQ1 and SQ2 they hit the ground almost same time.
Oscar had the best track from performance perspective, as Max did. But he was closer to Nico than to Lando. I am expecting to see also today's quali and Mexico to draw a conclusion, but here in Austin, by doing this "game" mclaren only took the pole from Lando and gave it to Max. Anyway, was funny to watch F1Tv and to see that neither James Hinchcliffe, or Palmer, or Ruth...had a clue what the f''k mclaren is doing with this "Singapore case".

As I said, just a feeling, but the race will be very interesting: will Max cover Lando on the inside like he did in Austin , but with the risk to open the door for Oscar or he will be focus in taking the best line and to stay ahead, if not both McLaren's, at least of Oscar, the leader of the WDC?

Interesting performance analysis from our friend from Formula Data Analysis:
2nd (McL) and 3rd (Sauber) fastest in SQ had the worst top speed (324 km/h) performance from high downforce
Pole-sitter had the 2nd highest (327 km/h) great drag/downforce balance
Austin rewards diverse aero load levels!

[Juzh]

Norris P2 lap from sprint quali 1:32.214

https://streamable.com/140g51

[Darth-Piekus]

It wasn't a good lap. Took the first turn too wide, a correction on the left right turns which definitely cost, again took the 180 degree turn too wide, another correction after. All in all he definitely lost a tenth or maybe more.

[Ben1980]

Contact!

[Avocado]

I knew it. Idiots!!!

[Mcl_G10]

Total idiot.

Wtf is piastri doing not seeing hulk on the inside?

[Raleigh]

100% Oscar's fault.

[trinidefender]

Yes it's first lap first corner but Piastri drove into a space that was already occupied by two cars. While it might not technically be Piastri's fault with the way the racing rules are set up, I'm not really sure what he was expecting driving into that gap. There was never not going to have a car or two there already.

[Ben1980]

Racing incident. But..so was Landos, therefore Oscar has to accept it.

[Szabi1112]

Poor start from lando, dumb move from Oscar. Max will win the WDC…

[geogate]

oops - personally i wouldnt put either driver at fault - but given the animosity to Mclaren these days we wont hear the end of it

[WardenOfTheNorth]

I hope the people who blamed Lando in Singapore blame Oscar for this.

In my opinion neither of them was actually to blame for either incident. They were just racing accidents.

[Szabi1112]

Main problem is that we will not have informations on degradations… a way to lose a race that we could easily win.. shame