AR3-GP wrote: ↑12 Apr 2025, 20:02
CjC wrote: ↑12 Apr 2025, 19:53
I know the first Q3 aren’t the ones that count but what about how far ahead the 2 Mclaren boys are compared to the rest of the pack on their used tyres- discount Russell who set both of his Q3 times on a new tyres
Well that's the point. The more perceptive viewers know Mclaren is already in Jeddah. The headline times don't mean it's close.
I don't think anyone is doubting the race pace of the car. But a whole ton of people and their dogs are using the blanket term "dominant" in every session. A fast lap in an unrepresentative practise session?
Dominant!!!!
The car is not dominant on one lap pace though it is the fastest, but every time the Mclaren looks fast in an FP the world goes upside down and the car is going be half a second faster in Q, or sometimes such b*llocks being posted in here.
It was abundantly clear in FP that the gap wasn't real, that Merc had plenty of one lap pace in the car, theyve been showing less in practise than us in general this tear. It's abundantly clear that Max can stop the RB behaving like an asshole then it's a contender on one lap pace.
In finding the last bit of pace the cars have become trickier to varying degrees, though in Mclarens case largely in the hands of one driver.
With Landos words biting him in the ass in the long and short term due to his inability to get his head down and just focus on the job, it's hard not to remember his attitude to Daniel Ricciardo.
