I really like McLaren unboxed. It's not super heavy on content, it's short, fun and interesting. It helps that Carlos and Lando get along and are obviously fooling around half the time. Whoever created it deserves credit as I feel it works great for Youtube.
Totally agree, their chemistry is, dare I say unprecedented? What makes it all the more impressive and special, is that it’s in a competitive car, battling for best of the rest, with both drivers close to each other in performance. It’s not like their clowning around because they are at the back of the grid and can’t do anything else but make light of the situation.FittingMechanics wrote: ↑16 Jul 2019, 21:43I really like McLaren unboxed. It's not super heavy on content, it's short, fun and interesting. It helps that Carlos and Lando get along and are obviously fooling around half the time. Whoever created it deserves credit as I feel it works great for Youtube.
It was probably more due to the headwinds on the straights and the fact that Renault ran less wing. Both amplified their woes.Ground Effect wrote: ↑17 Jul 2019, 16:16Personally, I think the only reason Renault were quicker than McLaren at Silverstone was due to the cooler temps. If it was as hot as Austria or France, McLaren would have been clearly ahead. So they have to come up with a solution for cool conditions during race weekends.
I'm getting tired of repeating THIS.......... IT IS NOT ALLOWED TO RUN A PU UPGRADE OR MAP THAT HAS NOT BEEN MADE AVAILABLE TO ALL CUSTOMER TEAMS. The FIA verify this regularly.Wynters wrote: ↑17 Jul 2019, 16:26I'd also be interested to know the wording of the engine contract. It's not unprecedented for the factory team to have upgrades (software, etc) before the customer teams. Undoubtedly, McLaren are doing a great job, especially given their travails in recent seasons.
diffuser wrote: ↑18 Jul 2019, 03:23I'm getting tired of repeating THIS.......... IT IS NOT ALLOWED TO RUN A PU UPGRADE OR MAP THAT HAS NOT BEEN MADE AVAILABLE TO ALL CUSTOMER TEAMS. The FIA verify this regularly.Wynters wrote: ↑17 Jul 2019, 16:26I'd also be interested to know the wording of the engine contract. It's not unprecedented for the factory team to have upgrades (software, etc) before the customer teams. Undoubtedly, McLaren are doing a great job, especially given their travails in recent seasons.
It's worth listening to the missed apex podacst with former lotus F1 team boss where they discuss this subject.diffuser wrote: ↑18 Jul 2019, 03:23I'm getting tired of repeating THIS.......... IT IS NOT ALLOWED TO RUN A PU UPGRADE OR MAP THAT HAS NOT BEEN MADE AVAILABLE TO ALL CUSTOMER TEAMS. The FIA verify this regularly.Wynters wrote: ↑17 Jul 2019, 16:26I'd also be interested to know the wording of the engine contract. It's not unprecedented for the factory team to have upgrades (software, etc) before the customer teams. Undoubtedly, McLaren are doing a great job, especially given their travails in recent seasons.
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/arti ... 3Yv6E.htmlSainz: McLaren need low-speed performance gains to keep Renault at bay
"One race they will be quicker, another race we will be quicker and today they were quicker. We need to improve the car at low speed because that is what’s going to give us the edge, which at the moment we don’t have.
“The only thing that we know is that we haven’t cleared the midfield yet. Many people wanted us to be already clear of the midfield, but we haven’t. We still are with the Renaults, they are battling.”
As I said before, we need to keep bringing little bits to the car to help at low speed. They both have a combination of high-speed/low-speed [corners] so we don’t know how we’re going to do, but it’s going to be interesting to see [how we compete] with the Renaults.”
