More details about McLaren's technical leadership changes are becoming public as it has now become clear that Toro Rosso's highly valued technical director, James Key, is set to join McLaren in the same role.
Yes seems a bit odd. But at least they know they have an engine capable of decent power. I think Renault were working on a qualy mode for this year too
McLaren will certainly be looking to make changes to internal cooling between now & Melbourne, however the changes they refer to will be related to Aero and will not affect reliability in any waynokivasara wrote: ↑08 Mar 2018, 22:34I find it odd that they since the launch have said to have a "totally different" car ready for the first race, how can they be sure it will work better than this spec? Would suck to have small issues (like an exhaust clamp) at the first race whilst knowing that these could have been sorted during the tests...
Maybe....although looking at the bargeboard area it look the least draggy of all cars
Not really good numbers if we're comparing to everyone else. Not sure how much to read into it.
Last stint was pretty good no?
Must admit I noticed that and wondered why....Xero wrote: ↑09 Mar 2018, 00:21One note to mention is Vandoorne was aggressively weaving down the main straight on several occasions just before the red flag (as reported by Autosport), no doubt testing those tires in race conditions for the first time. It's quite possible they made a positive setup change during the red flag, as he was instantly over a second a lap quicker. Or perhaps they finally turned the engine up a bit, as we know they are running it very lean to avoid problems.
Ok my mistake I read they did 47 laps before the oil leak and then when the testing was finished I think I read they did another 57 laps, but that was the total lapcountrestless wrote: ↑08 Mar 2018, 20:09Boulier must be sacked.
Beg your pardon you must live in some other dimension.Andres125sx wrote: ↑08 Mar 2018, 18:26What 3 days?restless wrote: ↑08 Mar 2018, 10:37
Lol, yea, its a 2$ bolt that failed, or hose for 0.1$, cutting the engine cover is minor too.
No need to overreact, but fact is - Mclaren badly NEEDED good mileage during tests. loosing 3 days is NOT acceptable whatever the spin. It makes so much harder to be prepared for Melburn.
I'm ok with early integration problems. I fully expected Mc to use first 4 races for fixing small gremlins.
But I can't accept the bullshit with "minor problems". Who needs these stupid remarks?!
PS:
Eric Boulier must be sacked.
Yesterday, despite the problems, they managed to do 100 laps
They made 47 laps before engine blew
and 10 more in last 10minutes of the day, when all others had already finished
57 total.
Or you count twice any lap by Alonso?
Today was only second day when full program was executed, so far 1 day lost to weather (and Boulier complaining that Williams denied possibility to have 1 more training day) , another half-day also weather and 2 days lost to malfunctions (Boulier&Brown&Alonso claiming 8 days are too much! WTF???)
