No worries looking forward to seeing how this new design with Dan's input turns out. Race 1 can't come soon enough! Interesting one of Sky's F1 commentators noted the McLaren looked glued to the track lap after lap with no signs of porpoising. Would love to know how close to baseline we have the car at the moment and how much more to come by race 1 at Bahrain. So many variables it's hard to know where we stand but Landos reaction on his day 1 P1 seemed positive. Also Dan saying the car is well balanced this early is nice to hear too.djos wrote: ↑24 Feb 2022, 23:07This is exactly what I’ve been trying to say, thank you for being so concise.runningmanz wrote: ↑24 Feb 2022, 16:33You're missing the point. Without Dan's input which Lando also agreed with the car wouldn't be what it is now. I'm not saying it's all his input of course not but it is significant. Lando and Carlos didn't have reference points from a race winning car like the RBR that Dan brings to the team. Your are underestimating how important that information and experience is . Mentioning 2021 is a moot point because Dan had very limited input into that car. Time will tell how good the car is and if it's the right design direction.SmallSoldier wrote: ↑24 Feb 2022, 16:13
My only point is that the team will follow whatever path makes the car the fastest possible, if that path suits Daniel’s style more, fantastic, if it doesn’t, so be it… The drivers always provide feedback, the fact that Carlos said that it was “weird” means that the handling characteristics of the MCL35M were known way before Daniel came on board and I’m sure both Carlos and Lando provided similar feedback back then, the difference is that both of them manage to drive around the issue.
If some want to think that Daniel is responsible for the MCL36 performance, is up to them… Just as I won’t blame him if the performance isn’t there, I won’t praise him if the car’s performance is great… He is supposed to drive the car as fast as the car can go… He is not an engineer, he isn’t a designer, as much what he can do is to tell them that it feels that the car does X, when he is doing A and does Y when he is doing B and how he would like those variables to feel, the team will try to make adjustments to make the car be as close as possible to what he wants, but it’s possible that it won’t be the case (like the 2021 season showed).