[ 2020 ] Mclaren F1 Team - Renault

[diffuser]

Oooooof, not this story again ..... How many time we gonna rehash this ?


it is what it is... They made thier bed ...now they have to sleep in it.

[_cerber1]

[RonDennis]

If they would stayed the course with Honda a lot their financial issues would have been addressed.they went from being a works team which in principle could compete with the likes Mercedes and Ferrari to a midfield team on verge of bankruptcy.they wanted instant gratification they should have gone through pain just like Honda until eventually everything works it is just how development in engineering works. When USA was in a space race with Soviet Union it was a disaster from the beginning with rockets blowing all over at launch before they eventually set foot on the Moon.

Not necessarily, the financial issues plaguing Mclaren today aren’t related to the Racing division per se... Would it have been better from a Cash Flow perspective? Definitely, since they would have benefited of the investment from Honda... Nevertheless, it may not have covered the problems conveying the team today.

On the other hand, the issues from the relationship with Honda could have easily trickle down to the automotive division, which would have been a bigger problem... The decision to move away from Honda when it was made, was the right one... The fact that they had issues with the 2018 car, not related to the PU, is a different situation in itself.

As a matter of fact, the issues in 2018 and the divorce from Honda (and the pain that came from it) may end been very beneficial, since it forced the team to look at themselves with a more critical attitude, forced them to rebuild and change the way they were tackling their racing operations... In the long term, it could prove to be the best thing that could have happened today.

The financial issues today are due to a Pandemic that is having an effect on everyone, not so long ago we were discussing whether Mercedes was going to stay in F1, similar with Renault and others.


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Mclaren is a group. The extra income of $100, free engines, drivers and marketing is a lot. During 2018 they had to sell historic cars to compensate the giant loss at the racing team. There might be somehow be a good side to it... but I don't see it. RedBull winning and podiums for Toro Rosso might more make the decision of the McLaren management to break with Honda even more painful. I suspect it was a choice to keep Alonso and the possibility to attract better sponsorship, the lack in leadership in 2017 and not "getting" that their 2017 chassis was underperforming a push in the wrong direction. At the moment they are quite large car manufacturer who is in financial stress with a racing team that is underperforming. An extra investment into the racing team is not logical and wil not be on the priority list of the owners.

Because they still would be playing the blame game. All the good changes happened after Honda left, because McLaren learned they weren't anywhere close to the top teams. You're also comparing Red Bull with McLaren, while they operate on different budgets. Let's not forget that Honda costed McLaren a lot of money as well because of sponsors running away and less price money. Their racing team also isn't underperforming, they ended 4th in the constructor championship and that's the place where they should be budget wise. McLaren isn't the crème de la crème of F1 anymore, but it seems some fans still compare their resources with Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull. Even with Honda they weren't comparable.

[Jolle]

Not necessarily, the financial issues plaguing Mclaren today aren’t related to the Racing division per se... Would it have been better from a Cash Flow perspective? Definitely, since they would have benefited of the investment from Honda... Nevertheless, it may not have covered the problems conveying the team today.

On the other hand, the issues from the relationship with Honda could have easily trickle down to the automotive division, which would have been a bigger problem... The decision to move away from Honda when it was made, was the right one... The fact that they had issues with the 2018 car, not related to the PU, is a different situation in itself.

As a matter of fact, the issues in 2018 and the divorce from Honda (and the pain that came from it) may end been very beneficial, since it forced the team to look at themselves with a more critical attitude, forced them to rebuild and change the way they were tackling their racing operations... In the long term, it could prove to be the best thing that could have happened today.

The financial issues today are due to a Pandemic that is having an effect on everyone, not so long ago we were discussing whether Mercedes was going to stay in F1, similar with Renault and others.


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Mclaren is a group. The extra income of $100, free engines, drivers and marketing is a lot. During 2018 they had to sell historic cars to compensate the giant loss at the racing team. There might be somehow be a good side to it... but I don't see it. RedBull winning and podiums for Toro Rosso might more make the decision of the McLaren management to break with Honda even more painful. I suspect it was a choice to keep Alonso and the possibility to attract better sponsorship, the lack in leadership in 2017 and not "getting" that their 2017 chassis was underperforming a push in the wrong direction. At the moment they are quite large car manufacturer who is in financial stress with a racing team that is underperforming. An extra investment into the racing team is not logical and wil not be on the priority list of the owners.

Because they still would be playing the blame game. All the good changes happened after Honda left, because McLaren learned they weren't anywhere close to the top teams. You're also comparing Red Bull with McLaren, while they operate on different budgets. Let's not forget that Honda costed McLaren a lot of money as well because of sponsors running away and less price money. Their racing team also isn't underperforming, they ended 4th in the constructor championship and that's the place where they should be budget wise. McLaren isn't the crème de la crème of F1 anymore, but it seems some fans still compare their resources with Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull. Even with Honda they weren't comparable.

“The blame game” is a management issue. And with management like that you’re not going to win any championships anyway, it’s destructive.

As for resources, budget and goals: during the Honda years, budget was quite comparable to at least RedBull and our friend Dennis was talking about race wins around the corner at every press conference.

[genarro]

Not necessarily, the financial issues plaguing Mclaren today aren’t related to the Racing division per se... Would it have been better from a Cash Flow perspective? Definitely, since they would have benefited of the investment from Honda... Nevertheless, it may not have covered the problems conveying the team today.

On the other hand, the issues from the relationship with Honda could have easily trickle down to the automotive division, which would have been a bigger problem... The decision to move away from Honda when it was made, was the right one... The fact that they had issues with the 2018 car, not related to the PU, is a different situation in itself.

As a matter of fact, the issues in 2018 and the divorce from Honda (and the pain that came from it) may end been very beneficial, since it forced the team to look at themselves with a more critical attitude, forced them to rebuild and change the way they were tackling their racing operations... In the long term, it could prove to be the best thing that could have happened today.

The financial issues today are due to a Pandemic that is having an effect on everyone, not so long ago we were discussing whether Mercedes was going to stay in F1, similar with Renault and others.


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Mclaren is a group. The extra income of $100, free engines, drivers and marketing is a lot. During 2018 they had to sell historic cars to compensate the giant loss at the racing team. There might be somehow be a good side to it... but I don't see it. RedBull winning and podiums for Toro Rosso might more make the decision of the McLaren management to break with Honda even more painful. I suspect it was a choice to keep Alonso and the possibility to attract better sponsorship, the lack in leadership in 2017 and not "getting" that their 2017 chassis was underperforming a push in the wrong direction. At the moment they are quite large car manufacturer who is in financial stress with a racing team that is underperforming. An extra investment into the racing team is not logical and wil not be on the priority list of the owners.

Because they still would be playing the blame game. All the good changes happened after Honda left, because McLaren learned they weren't anywhere close to the top teams. You're also comparing Red Bull with McLaren, while they operate on different budgets. Let's not forget that Honda costed McLaren a lot of money as well because of sponsors running away and less price money. Their racing team also isn't underperforming, they ended 4th in the constructor championship and that's the place where they should be budget wise. McLaren isn't the crème de la crème of F1 anymore, but it seems some fans still compare their resources with Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull. Even with Honda they weren't comparable.

what you have to know is that the budget differences is all Bernie's fault. When the concorde agrement was signed in 2011(cerrect me if i'm wrong) i think he gave everything in terms of funding to Ferrari, Merc and Red Bull (because the were threating to quit). He made it posible for the big teams to grow out of control and made the sport unsustainable. McLaren and Williams got some solidation with their long standing bonuses. And now less than 10 years later two of the most important teams in f1 history are on the brink of death and nothing is in motion to stop thais...shame for the sport because im probably not the only one who will stop watching the sport if mclaren and williams will dissapear

[_cerber1]

So, our expectations from Spielberg? Last year, this was one of the best Grand Prix for McLaren, is there a chance to repeat?

[Jackles-UK]

Almost impossible to tell seeing as there has been precious little running. All the talk seems to focus on McLaren, RP and Renault being incredibly close pace-wise (in race trim anyway, RP maybe a slight edge in quali) but that was before the updates teams are bringing.

From testing the 2020 car appears to be similar in characteristics to the 2019 one so I guess there is scope to be optimistic. Spielberg is basically just four straights with medium speed corners linking them so cars with deficiencies in slow corners won’t be punished as much as at other circuits.

[Emag]

I am pretty sure that after testing PhilipM mentioned that the car has a lot more downforce this year. So there is a lot of room to experiment with setups.
That means that perhaps the team can try more things this year compared to last in an effort to extract as much performance from the car for every gp.
I am willing to bet this one is going to be a good weekend for them regardless but if this car shares some characteristics with the last then there is a lot of room for improvement with the setup.

[godlameroso]

The car seems to be about half a second faster than what it was capable of in last year's race. Although ultimate race pace seems to be about the same. The race sim fastest lap was on par with his fastest lap in the race, although Sainz dipped into the 20's twice in the 2020 car vs only once in the 2019 car.

[godlameroso]

Spielberg is a strange track, you can be fast with both a slippery car, and with a very heavily loaded car. As long as you get the downforce to work at medium to high speed, what you gain on the straights makes up for what you lose in the slow corners to an extent. You can lose .2 in the corner and make it back up on the straight, so it's a tricky circuit to balance for. Ideally you'll probably go higher downforce to make preserving the tires easier.

[ALO_Power]

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[adrianjordan]

Anyone else concerned that Renault are going to repeat what they (are alleged to) have done to other departing partners and give McLaren sub-par parts?

Seems they've already blocked them from pre-season preparation by not providing a PU for a filming day on top of not helping them to be able to run a 2018 car the other week.

Really not showing Renault in the best light. I used to have a soft spot for the team from Enstone when Kimi and then Robert K drove for them.

Nobody blocked anyone. I've said this before. If that stuff would have been in the PU contract, They would have gotten it. The fact that they didn't get it means it wasn't in the contract or they didn't want to spend the money on it.

nobody's giving anyone an competative edge for free.
I'm sure if Mclaren would have forked over the million Pound (or whatever the price is) for the PU. Renault would have given them one.

We see news of McLaren having cash flow problems but you automatically think it's renault not willing to give PU, instead of mcLaren not willing to spend.

Of course it wasn't in the contract. No-one expected a global pandemic to delay the start of the season for half the year.

[PlatinumZealot]

McLaren were in problems even before 2019. Can't blame the Covid.

I am not an expert on this, but what i understand is that the horrid performance road car division is what is dragging down the whole McLaren umbrella and the race team of course is the most visibly affected since F1 teams pretty much a financial knife edge.

[diffuser]

Anyone else concerned that Renault are going to repeat what they (are alleged to) have done to other departing partners and give McLaren sub-par parts?

Seems they've already blocked them from pre-season preparation by not providing a PU for a filming day on top of not helping them to be able to run a 2018 car the other week.

Really not showing Renault in the best light. I used to have a soft spot for the team from Enstone when Kimi and then Robert K drove for them.

Nobody blocked anyone. I've said this before. If that stuff would have been in the PU contract, They would have gotten it. The fact that they didn't get it means it wasn't in the contract or they didn't want to spend the money on it.

nobody's giving anyone an competative edge for free.
I'm sure if Mclaren would have forked over the million Pound (or whatever the price is) for the PU. Renault would have given them one.

We see news of McLaren having cash flow problems but you automatically think it's renault not willing to give PU, instead of mcLaren not willing to spend.

Of course it wasn't in the contract. No-one expected a global pandemic to delay the start of the season for half the year.

Yet you find no problem assigning blame to Renault for not giving a 1 million pound PU to McLaren out of the goodness of their heart.

[adrianjordan]

Nobody blocked anyone. I've said this before. If that stuff would have been in the PU contract, They would have gotten it. The fact that they didn't get it means it wasn't in the contract or they didn't want to spend the money on it.

nobody's giving anyone an competative edge for free.
I'm sure if Mclaren would have forked over the million Pound (or whatever the price is) for the PU. Renault would have given them one.

We see news of McLaren having cash flow problems but you automatically think it's renault not willing to give PU, instead of mcLaren not willing to spend.

Of course it wasn't in the contract. No-one expected a global pandemic to delay the start of the season for half the year.

Yet you find no problem assigning blame to Renault for not giving a 1 million pound PU to McLaren out of the goodness of their heart.

No. They would have had to provide them for the races, so no. It's just yet another symptom of how Renault operate. Remember when Red Bull and Torro Rosso were leaving for Honda and TR suddenly found they were being given unreliable parts or having to scrape together old parts. Then there's the lack of grace over the handling of Daniel leaving to come to McLaren.

Actually, now I think about it, surely filming days would have been the contract.