2023 - McLaren Formula 1 Team

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CjC wrote:
08 Oct 2023, 20:27
I just can not believe they called team orders. They should have gone like hell on that hard tyre
Why? You think they could have got Max?
Q: (Stefano Mancini – La Stampa) Kimi, will you help Vettel to win his championship this year?
Kimi Raikkonen: I can only drive one car, obviously. 
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Superb recovery, another double podium. On a roll!

FittingMechanics
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Darth-Piekus wrote:
08 Oct 2023, 20:32
Bravo to the team for this great 2-3. Yes we can't beat Red Bull yet but that is gonna change if the team keeps outdeveloping them that quickly. We were way closer than ever before.
We finished 5 seconds behind them in a race where there was no late safety car. We are as close as it came this year.

Any bigger mistake by Verstappen and we would have had 1-2. What a weekend.

Szabi1112
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FANTASTIC PERFORMANCE! I’m very proud of the team!

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Shame the team didn't even try to go for Verstappen with Norris at the end there, he quite clearly had the superior pace.

Ben1980
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Another Max and 2 Macca drivers on the podium..getting predictable this F1

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Great to get double podium considering the starting positions of 6-10.

Pace was very strong

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What is amazing is the RB scale gap to those behind us.

Now it is RB and Mclaren, and then the rest.
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Not sure how I feel about the team orders, Lando deserved to fight, but it is what it is and it is why those Qualifying laps count so much. But amazing drive from both.
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Slahinki wrote:
08 Oct 2023, 20:34
Shame the team didn't even try to go for Verstappen with Norris at the end there, he quite clearly had the superior pace.
Not a hope of catching him.

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FittingMechanics wrote:
08 Oct 2023, 20:33
Darth-Piekus wrote:
08 Oct 2023, 20:32
Bravo to the team for this great 2-3. Yes we can't beat Red Bull yet but that is gonna change if the team keeps outdeveloping them that quickly. We were way closer than ever before.
We finished 5 seconds behind them in a race where there was no late safety car. We are as close as it came this year.

Any bigger mistake by Verstappen and we would have had 1-2. What a weekend.
That is why I'm saying that the difference is small now. Without SC on merit 5 sec the final difference compared to the 20 sec on the last time we were behind Max and Piastri beat him on Sprint.

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Ben1980 wrote:
08 Oct 2023, 20:36
Slahinki wrote:
08 Oct 2023, 20:34
Shame the team didn't even try to go for Verstappen with Norris at the end there, he quite clearly had the superior pace.
Not a hope of catching him.
Not when you don't even try, no.

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Darth-Piekus wrote:
08 Oct 2023, 20:36
FittingMechanics wrote:
08 Oct 2023, 20:33
Darth-Piekus wrote:
08 Oct 2023, 20:32
Bravo to the team for this great 2-3. Yes we can't beat Red Bull yet but that is gonna change if the team keeps outdeveloping them that quickly. We were way closer than ever before.
We finished 5 seconds behind them in a race where there was no late safety car. We are as close as it came this year.

Any bigger mistake by Verstappen and we would have had 1-2. What a weekend.
That is why I'm saying that the difference is small now. Without SC on merit 5 sec the final difference compared to the 20 sec on the last time we were behind Max and Piastri beat him on Sprint.
Max had time in hand, don't be in any doubt that the real gap is bigger.
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Slahinki wrote:
08 Oct 2023, 20:34
Shame the team didn't even try to go for Verstappen with Norris at the end there, he quite clearly had the superior pace.
Not worth the risk, with the track limits drama.
Q: (Stefano Mancini – La Stampa) Kimi, will you help Vettel to win his championship this year?
Kimi Raikkonen: I can only drive one car, obviously. 
@2018 Singapore Grand Prix drivers press conference.

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Norris says he thinks he had the best pace in the race