2023 - McLaren Formula 1 Team

[Marc.W]

Have they made the white line wider at T19? Russell was quite wide but "still on the line"

Yes they just said, it is wider, but told no one lol

I'm no Verstappen fan by any means, but doesn't really seem fair to him to do that after yesterday?

[mwillems]

Have they made the white line wider at T19? Russell was quite wide but "still on the line"

Yes they just said, it is wider, but told no one lol

I'm no Verstappen fan by any means, but doesn't really seem fair to him to do that after yesterday?

Despite sharing three letters between them, I don't think many ever thought the FIA had anything to do with being fair.

[Marc.W]

Yes they just said, it is wider, but told no one lol

I'm no Verstappen fan by any means, but doesn't really seem fair to him to do that after yesterday?

Despite sharing three letters between them, I don't think many ever thought the FIA had anything to do with being fair.

Well, you're right, but don't see any reason to widen the line other than giving them less work to do lol

[mwillems]

Norris struggling with the rear a little occasionally but doing well.

[Ben1980]

That's so close. But, not bad at all.

[mwillems]

I feel like this Q3 was more sensible and everyone got their laps in. I saw some wobble on Lando's rear but I'm sure everyone was on the edge. 4 and 5 is good here.

[MCLvamos]

Great lap from Lando. Very close between the top 4, if only it could be like this every weekend!

[Marc.W]

I can see a bit of drama between that top 3 at T1 in the sprint

[mwillems]

Just going back to the tyres, New meds each in SQ1 and SQ2 but the softs do not have to be new, in fact. And Perez ran on used softs.

https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12040 ... 0new%20set.

[101FlyingDutchman]

Great lap. The ultimate raw pace is there. Now let’s see how the tyre deg war goes. Again, from where we were at the beginning of the year, this is huge. Team wasn’t confident but we are still hanging out right at the top. Bodes very well!

[Emag]

Its the slow stuff where I could see it was tentative for Lando in that lap. He lost a possible front row again due to a bad exit onto the back straight. Still, just a tenth down, P4, can't complain

[mwillems]

Its the slow stuff where I could see it was tentative for Lando in that lap. He lost a possible front row again due to a bad exit onto the back straight. Still, just a tenth down, P4, can't complain

His rear was not happy on the lap. Still think we should have run with more rear DF, especially to help in the race.

[mwillems]

Nice to see Lando accepting that everyone got more out of the car and we are probably where we should be.

[mwillems]

Just watched some of Landos onboard and whenever the rear was called into action it complained before getting on down the road.

[SmallSoldier]

Its the slow stuff where I could see it was tentative for Lando in that lap. He lost a possible front row again due to a bad exit onto the back straight. Still, just a tenth down, P4, can't complain

His rear was not happy on the lap. Still think we should have run with more rear DF, especially to help in the race.

Long race, Team probably aiming at running in some free air during the race, which means that the “skinnier” wing provides more lap time in race pace… McLaren still very strong in S1, which bodes well for the race and on the approach to the back straight to get out of a DRS threat + more top speed without DRS seems the sensible move to make looking at the race… The car also still has enough DF (wasn’t Piastri purple in S3 during the shootout?).

I believe that looking at the race, it is the best approach