He keeps trying to screw it in, but the excessive drag of the McLaren chassis means that his efforts are all in vein.
He is doing sponsorship interviews for very competitive 2018 season
Isn´t that the job of the Racing Director (Eric Boulier) instead of the Executive Director (Zak Brown)?
Any specific reason? With Alonso at the wheel and Prodomou into the headquarter the only reason to say this is the poor results. With a PU reliability wich required around 3x the allowed allocations because of the constant failures, and a perfomance wich could barely fight with past season units of their rivals, I´d say the weak link is pretty obvious in this team, but I don´t think you were blaming Honda, weren´t you?
Yes. Honda is the weakest link in the team.Andres125sx wrote: ↑25 Nov 2017, 19:11Any specific reason? With Alonso at the wheel and Prodomou into the headquarter the only reason to say this is the poor results. With a PU reliability wich required around 3x the allowed allocations because of the constant failures, and a perfomance wich could barely fight with past season units of their rivals, I´d say the weak link is pretty obvious in this team, but I don´t think you were blaming Honda, weren´t you?
He doesn't have to create a racing team,he has one. What he wants is competitiveness as that is what will attract sponsors rather than lose them as they have been.HPD wrote: ↑25 Nov 2017, 18:19The bad thing about Zak is that he is creating an advertising team and not a racing team.
At Honda they were saying the same thing. Mclaren no longer looks like a racing team
That would put McLaren and RBR within 1.1Kph of each other. Then add in the Alonso factor.stevesingo wrote: ↑26 Nov 2017, 01:35Using the figures Brundle spoke of, i.e Merc-2%=Ferrari-6%=Renault-11%=Honda, and assuming in qualifying Merc have 1000hp, this gives the following;
Ferrari=980hp
Renault=943hp
Honda=901hp
We also have the top speeds of all chassis for Abu Dhabi
ForceIndia=331.8
Williams=329.4
Merc=326.9
Ferrari=325.6
HAAS=324.2
RBR=322.7
Sauber=321.2 (we can discount these as Brundle made no mention of the 2016 Ferrari number)
Renault=320.1
TorroRosso=318.3
McLaren=316.3
Running it all through my spreadsheet I get the following.
Drag delta % of Merc powered cars
FI=0%
Williams= +2.3%
Merc= +4.8%
Drag delta % of Ferrari 2017 powered cars
Ferrari= 0%
HASS= +1.36%
Drag delta % of Renault powered cars
RBR= 0%
Renault= +2.57%
TR= +4.41%
As this is the McLaren thread, I will get back on topic, drag levels of all above compared to the McLaren;
ForceIndia= -3.17%
RBR= -1.06%
Williams= -0.84%
Merc= -0.49%
McLaren= 0%
Ferrari= +0.49%
Renault= +1.44%
HAAS= +1.85%
TorroRosso= +3.17%
Now, I see that TR are looking bad. That may be because they are conserving PU components, but the same could be said of all except Hamilton.
Anyway, using the McLaren Drag figure and the Renault power level we get an extra 5.3kph on top speed, up to 321.6kph. With Merc power it would be 328.5kph!
Would I put my life on the figures above? Nope! But, it is interesting to compare.