I got a free month of Autosport plus. Been reading some of the premium articles. One of them talked about how Mclaren was doing the "aero politics" last year, running monkey seats in Monza, increasing the corner speed and slowing the car down on the straights to heap more pressure on Honda. So the draggy chassis comment has merit. Even this year, Mclaren is the slowest of the Renault cars.Revs84 wrote: ↑15 Apr 2018, 13:35Dude, we get your point lol First it was McLaren's draggy chassis comment, then it was the Red Bull mid-season switch to Honda and now it's the let's kick Hartley out commenttechman wrote: ↑15 Apr 2018, 11:42not the best result but however if you compare this to melbourne. it seem rain in practice and they get their setup wrong but bahrain all sessions were hot and they got their setup spot on. so iam bit dissapointed but hopefully there is no wet sessions in baku and we should be ok. with the new upgrade coming that will be a bonus.hartly sorry no race pace , he should be replaced.
Give him a break and some time - He'll get there... and if he doesn't he'll get replaced don't worry. There's just no need to say it like 10 times a day
Today I saw Gasly and Sirotkin having kinda like a drag race after the restart and to my surprise, Gasly didn't get left behind, although he lost the place later. Ricciardo didn't even need DRS to pass a Raikkonen today. Both Honda and Renault has closed up a lot.
Last year the GPS data told us that Honda was 11.1% behind Merc on power. Wonder what that percentage is this year.