2025 McLaren F1 Team

[FittingMechanics]

They can fake it once.

Here McLaren first said box to overtake (which means do opposite of car ahead) but then they changes it to box box, meaning box regardless of car ahead.

Not sure why, maybe he was being undercut or realized he was losing too much time on mediums.

[Jurgen von Diaz]

When was the last time McLaren got upgrades? Piastri says he now has to drive the car a completely different way, and Norris won by the biggest margin of the season: 30 seconds. Odd.

[f1isgood]

When was the last time McLaren got upgrades? Piastri says he now has to drive the car a completely different way, and Norris won by the biggest margin of the season: 30 seconds. Odd.

Spa I think.

[Jambier]

I think championship is done now for PIA.

He got a 2010 Webber season, and he will probably miss his only opportunity to be world champion.

Also, it shows that Max is still a threat but realistically not.

Of course NOR needs to avoid crashes but now he is on the golden road to the title

[basti313]

They can fake it once.

Here McLaren first said box to overtake (which means do opposite of car ahead) but then they changes it to box box, meaning box regardless of car ahead.

Not sure why, maybe he was being undercut or realized he was losing too much time on mediums.

Well, I think "box to overtake" is a different animal. They now showed it four times this season and always faked, no matter what the car ahead is doing. It is an intentional fake, never intended to stop. By the rule this is a slam dunk penalty, but not really to judge.
I wonder which tires they bring out...is it even the correct set? McLaren is usually very careful with things, I wonder if they would drop the tire temp of the actual set to use on these fake stops.

[Mcl_G10]

Is the following really that far fetched?

Brazil - Max 25pt. Lando 18pt
Vegas- Max 25pt. Lando 12pt
Qatar- Max 25pt. Lando 18pt
Abu - Max 25pt. Lando 18pt

No sprints included thats a 34 at swing for max with 36pts being the gap. Its not over for me.
Lando needs 1 more win and that won't be easy as redbull will be very strong for the remainder plus Max could get nasty and start trying to engineer dnf's by forcing off etc.

[Emag]

I said yesterday too, but with hindsight, I still don’t think they should have pit Oscar a second time.

Max would have gone through no doubt, but I don’t think Ollie would have caught and overtaken him for 4th.

[Ben1980]

I said yesterday too, but with hindsight, I still don’t think they should have pit Oscar a second time.

Max would have gone through no doubt, but I don’t think Ollie would have caught and overtaken him for 4th.

But Ollie doesnt stop if Oscar doesnt stop, neither does Russell, maybe not Kimi, as Mclaren made it obvious.

Oscars struggles to get past a Merc really gave little other options.