MrGapes wrote: ↑14 Feb 2023, 04:13
People don’t even want to give the team
a chance… I mean the car hasn’t even run on a track yet. Your kidding me..Andrea has said that the target is p4, I don’t know if anyone was expecting anything different, Just because there isn’t some radical bodywork doesn’t mean it’s slow (it’s a sensible evolution), the secret sauce is in the new floors..
Unluckily for McLaren they are always in that damn if you do, damn if you don’t… If they would have gone for a “radical” (at this point, how does that look like?) and had a bad season, they would have been shred to pieces for not following something that works (I would argue that their concept last year was very different in regards to the treatment of the sidepods from all other teams initially)… If they take cues from concepts that we know have more performance (RBR, Ferrari), they are not innovating enough.
I like the approach, they have to recover a couple of seconds to fight guys at the front (assuming they were 1 - 1.5 seconds from the leaders and that the leaders “only” gain half a second)… They’ve done the CFD, aero, etc and now know what works for the other teams and have incorporated those things into their car… Copy what the best are doing and then improve upon it, it is a good strategy.
Now it’s a matter of finding out if the mix of concepts can work in unison and the car responds as intended.
