2025 McLaren F1 Team

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Mcl_G10
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Fair play to Charles, there's no way past. Incredible defence.

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Everytime the same. Fast car, not possible to overtake. So frustrating.

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Everytime indeed the same with these crappy cars. Unable to follow the lead car due to dirty air and so hard to pass even with DRS.

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Oscar is nowhere, Lando too mellow. Unless he gets cleanly through before the braking zone, the man doesn't even try a sniff of a divebomb.
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Mcl_G10
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This is crazy. How are the softs hanging on this long?

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Mcl_G10 wrote:
19 Oct 2025, 21:40
This is crazy. How are the softs hanging on this long?
They weren't. The rears were looking horrible. The problem is that Lando is way too timid and wasn't pushing Leclerc at all. He needed to force him to use the rears and he would only do that by divebombing and forcing a switchback by Leclerc.
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Emag wrote:
19 Oct 2025, 21:41
Mcl_G10 wrote:
19 Oct 2025, 21:40
This is crazy. How are the softs hanging on this long?
They weren't. The rears were looking horrible. The problem is that Lando is way too timid and wasn't pushing Leclerc at all.
He needed to force him to use the rears and he would only do that by divebombing and forcing a switchback by Leclerc.

Yes but lando was ringing the neck of the mclaren, 3 track limits. Leclerc did a great job and ruined our race with max. Easy win for max unless there's a safety car.

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I pray for something to happen with Verstappen’s car

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It's not the cars, it's the driver's race craft. We saw on many occasions the lack of race craft from Lando. He is just not a good overtaker. Best example from this season, Canada, god knows what he saw there to go for that gap.

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Will be tough to finish ahead of Charles? Hard tyre seems one to avoid

Scrap that, leclerc lacking pace on mediums.
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Not really sure Lando could do much more. Oscar just managing i guess. They shoukd get 2 and 3

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After we missed all the Sprint we look pretty resonable. Lando is matching Max time, but unfortunatelly Leclerc choose the wrong race to play hero. But was a fiar fight and is not over.
Surprisingly slow Russell.

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McLarenMor wrote:
19 Oct 2025, 21:50
It's not the cars, it's the driver's race craft. We saw on many occasions the lack of race craft from Lando. He is just not a good overtaker. Best example from this season, Canada, god knows what he saw there to go for that gap.
His race craft seemed fine, against a person on full on defend mode. Its mot meant to be easy.

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Ben1980 wrote:
19 Oct 2025, 21:51
Not really sure Lando could do much more. Oscar just managing i guess. They shoukd get 2 and 3
Managing to go backwards. He's killed his tyres and after the cooling cycle of the VSC the tyres wouldn't come back to life.

Oscar has a big fight ahead of him, especially as he's 2 stopping.
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Oscar really struggling with tyre management today, back to how he was last season with managing them.