2025 McLaren F1 Team

[geogate]

I was slightly worried about the whole underweight thing - glad the team were on top of things and running the cars with wriggle room

[michl420]

Norris should have reacted to the braking problem earlier. After the beginning of the problem he was for maybe 10 laps the fastest car.
Almost payed the price.

[Swed3121]

Norris should have reacted to the braking problem earlier. After the beginning of the problem he was for maybe 10 laps the fastest car.
Almost payed the price.

I don’t think that would have made a difference, if your loosing 0.5mm of travel every lap, after 10 laps the pedal is going to hit the floor no matter how gentle you are with it.
From the way the team described it, the system was loosing pressure, something that won’t have been influenced much lando’s lap times

[mwillems]

It was influenced by how much pressure he applied to the brake, so not braking as hard would make it last longer. He had a tough job of managing Russell and still managing to finish.

He brought the car home in 2nd, I think he did great.

[Shader]

Still can't believe it... but it seems like McLaren really have the pace to make a strong 1-2 showing. What was the last time we had that? Hamilton-Alonso era? Feels awesome

Oscar seems to have taken a step forward as well. We have two top drivers now, top tier car, so let's see... what can we do with all these ingredients Good luck everyone

[bananapeel23]

Norris should have reacted to the braking problem earlier. After the beginning of the problem he was for maybe 10 laps the fastest car.
Almost payed the price.

I don’t think that would have made a difference, if your loosing 0.5mm of travel every lap, after 10 laps the pedal is going to hit the floor no matter how gentle you are with it.
From the way the team described it, the system was loosing pressure, something that won’t have been influenced much lando’s lap times

I'm guessing it lost pressure more quickly when he slammed on the brakes. The team probably wanted him to lift an coast as much as possible to avoid excessive use of the brakes in order to keep some brake pressure in there. He was probably not more than a lap or two away from a DNF.

[SilviuAgo]

Pole and win for Oscar, P2 and fastest Lap for Lando. Another MEGA result for McLaren.
Well done to our boys and to entire McLaren team.

[Swed3121]

Norris should have reacted to the braking problem earlier. After the beginning of the problem he was for maybe 10 laps the fastest car.
Almost payed the price.

I don’t think that would have made a difference, if your loosing 0.5mm of travel every lap, after 10 laps the pedal is going to hit the floor no matter how gentle you are with it.
From the way the team described it, the system was loosing pressure, something that won’t have been influenced much lando’s lap times

I'm guessing it lost pressure more quickly when he slammed on the brakes. The team probably wanted him to lift an coast as much as possible to avoid excessive use of the brakes in order to keep some brake pressure in there. He was probably not more than a lap or two away from a DNF.

That would make sense. I guess it was a real balancing between pushing hard to maintain a gap to Russel but then suffering massively on the last 2 laps, vs coasting a bit every lap and losing the gap to Russel over time but having a bit more brakes in the last 2 laps, would have probably been in the exact same place in the end

[CjC]

Early to talk about but what are your opinions on Suzuka? I guess it can really fit to our car.

Lando and Oscar sound confident about their chances when speaking to Sky towards the very end of their broadcast today

[SilviuAgo]

what a start for 2025

[Mcl_G10]

Watching the race back and the same thought comes to mind....

The ease in which lando passes George after he was jumped during the pitstops is pretty incredible. George had tires up to temp so no using that as a reason. We know the mclaren gets tyres to temp very fast but it was so effortless. At first I thought norris may be stuck behind for a lot of laps. This is not the sign of a car that is only 1 or 2 tenths a lap faster.

Once he passed he just kept enough of a gap and then when asked by the team to build a 4 sec gap to cover possible undercut he also did that with ease in a couple of laps.

Mclaren hiding pace and coasting? I get the feeling we saw nothing like the full potential of mclaren today.

[mwillems]

Watching the race back and the same thought comes to mind....

The ease in which lando passes George after he was jumped during the pitstops is pretty incredible. George had tires up to temp so no using that as a reason. We know the mclaren gets tyres to temp very fast but it was so effortless. At first I thought norris may be stuck behind for a lot of laps. This is not the sign of a car that is only 1 or 2 tenths a lap faster.

Once he passed he just kept enough of a gap and then when asked by the team to build a 4 sec gap to cover possible undercut he also did that with ease in a couple of laps.

Mclaren hiding pace and coasting? I get the feeling we saw nothing like the full potential of mclaren today.

Agreed. They had pace in hand today. Oscar could have pulled away further but was asked to lift and coast for many laps at the end whilst George went for it. I'd imagine so there's no risk with his brake pedal.

[mvfad]

This thing with Lando and Oscar "sharing" the points could make things more difficult at the end of the year (in relation to the drivers' championship). While the two are sharing the points, Russell and Verstappen are racing "alone", without teammates to take points from them. For now it doesn't make much difference because the car is much better than the others, but this advantage may not continue throughout the year.

[Macklaren]

Watching the race back and the same thought comes to mind....

The ease in which lando passes George after he was jumped during the pitstops is pretty incredible. George had tires up to temp so no using that as a reason. We know the mclaren gets tyres to temp very fast but it was so effortless. At first I thought norris may be stuck behind for a lot of laps. This is not the sign of a car that is only 1 or 2 tenths a lap faster.

Once he passed he just kept enough of a gap and then when asked by the team to build a 4 sec gap to cover possible undercut he also did that with ease in a couple of laps.

Mclaren hiding pace and coasting? I get the feeling we saw nothing like the full potential of mclaren today.

Agreed. They had pace in hand today. Oscar could have pulled away further but was asked to lift and coast for many laps at the end whilst George went for it. I'd imagine so there's no risk with his brake pedal.

All teams were pretty marginal on fuel as well so they needed lift and coast

[Szabi1112]

This thing with Lando and Oscar "sharing" the points could make things more difficult at the end of the year (in relation to the drivers' championship). While the two are sharing the points, Russell and Verstappen are racing "alone", without teammates to take points from them. For now it doesn't make much difference because the car is much better than the others, but this advantage may not continue throughout the year.

It would be the case if the teammates of theirs are factors but they are not.
If we run in the front with 2 cars we can easily eat them by strategy for example.