2018 McLaren F1 Team - Renault

[Shader]

Alonso said they can forget the midfield... I guess he was referring to the other side of it...

[Redragon]

So it is too early to say again as I did a couple of months ago that Mclaren is the new Williams case?! I still hope I am wrong

[max_speed]

would be good for alonso to call his time and bow out. this is utter embarassment ?. mclaren legacy, name is biting dust.

[bauc]

What happened ? The car was nowhere

[RonDennis]

It will be interesting to see how top management reacts, surely somebody's job will be on the line

Bring Dennis back.

With Honda??

I don’t care, the Renault is fine, McLaren isn’t.

[makecry]

What happened ? The car was nowhere

No one knows. Not even the team. Eric said drivers have no complains, the car is just slow for some reason.

[RonDennis]

What happened ? The car was nowhere

Nothing happened, McLaren already sucked in Melbourne.

[Shader]

This is so unbelievable that it points to two possible scenarios. Either McL lost key people and knowledge over past 5 years, or someone from inside is sabotaging this team. It is just not possible to be so bad.

[Ground Effect]

You wonder where the speed is going to magically come from. Looks like it'll be a tough year.

[ivanlesk]

What happened ? The car was nowhere

Out developed by others.
We'll see race pace but for this race it doesn't look good.

[DarkSurferZA]

This is so unbelievable that it points to two possible scenarios. Either McL lost key people and knowledge over past 5 years, or someone from inside is sabotaging this team. It is just not possible to be so bad.

Well, the fact that blame was place purely on Honda last year is really showing to be untrue. The Honda engine was bad, but the McLaren chassis wasn't front of the grid either. Hope the GP2 engine comments are retracted.

Even performance in Australia was not where it should be given that both of the sister Ferraris which is essentially last year's car was ahead of them and they weren't exactly out pacing the Renault works team.

Just another mid field car, and that isn't good given their resources

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[bauc]

What happened ? The car was nowhere

Out developed by others.
We'll see race pace but for this race it doesn't look good.

The only thing I can think of at the moment is that they went on the wrong side with the setup

[McL-H]

Eric Boullier’s head should be dropped. 4 consecutive season under his management that the car is in midfield. After all the big talk, this result is absolutely unacceptable from a team with McLaren’s history.

Ron should be reinstated as racing team director. Brown should shut his marketing mouth and take it back to the States with him.

But in the end this is all thanks to one man, and one man only: Ojjeh Mansour. He has no clue about racing at all. Installed the wrong people for the wrong jobs! Fired the wrong person too!

[RonDennis]

McLaren should have been 4th after all their talk last year. They were even lucky to be in Q2.

[ivanlesk]

What happened ? The car was nowhere

Out developed by others.
We'll see race pace but for this race it doesn't look good.

The only thing I can think of at the moment is that they went on the wrong side with the setup

Could be but don't think so. They didn't bring a lot of things to this race.
Last year was also bad circuit for them (chassis)