He ran his car to the white line before the car could even turn. Norris was inside and ended up on the outside after the corner. Big difference
He ran his car to the white line before the car could even turn. Norris was inside and ended up on the outside after the corner. Big difference
Without the backmarkers and without the bad pitstop it would've put max at least 8s clear of Lando for start of stint 3. Even with the bad stint 3 with the used tyre I doubt it would be enough to lose the race. We will see about Silverstone but I assume it should be better than Austria with the high speed corners and efficiency importance. Hopefully upgrades are okay as wellSergej wrote: ↑30 Jun 2024, 18:56second stint was ok-ish, not optimal but neither bad, Max lost also some time with backmarkers
last stint difficult to judge because he had used tyres vs new tyres for Norris, my impression though is that McLaren is faster towards the end of the race, this is a trend now starting from Imola
in hindsight another mistake was to save a hard tyre instead of a medium, among the top teams they were the only ones to do this so quite a big mistake
anyway, a quite positive weekend performance wise, despite what many thought I was right in thinking this would not have been a disaster, curiously I am less optimistic for Silverstone
I don't know if final stint pace difference can be accounted for by the used tires. The Spanish GP final stint does not agree (ver had new, and was slower). Sure it didn't help, but I don't think this explains why Mclaren was faster at the end. Norris recovered 8-9 second margins in Imola and Spain in the final stint and it looked like he would do the same here because Verstappen said the tires had no grip. Every race cannot go like this.organic wrote: ↑30 Jun 2024, 18:59Without the backmarkers and without the bad pitstop it would've put max at least 8s clear of Lando for start of stint 3. Even with the bad stint 3 with the used tyre I doubt it would be enough to lose the race. We will see about Silverstone but I assume it should be better than Austria with the high speed corners and efficiency importance. Hopefully upgrades are okay as wellSergej wrote: ↑30 Jun 2024, 18:56second stint was ok-ish, not optimal but neither bad, Max lost also some time with backmarkers
last stint difficult to judge because he had used tyres vs new tyres for Norris, my impression though is that McLaren is faster towards the end of the race, this is a trend now starting from Imola
in hindsight another mistake was to save a hard tyre instead of a medium, among the top teams they were the only ones to do this so quite a big mistake
anyway, a quite positive weekend performance wise, despite what many thought I was right in thinking this would not have been a disaster, curiously I am less optimistic for Silverstone
I'm not sure it was positive performance wise. I think they were flattered in qualifying because Norris was not feeling well and didn't do a great lap when Verstappen did a great lap. Mclaren did not improve their sprint qualifying speed in the main qualifying like everyone else so that was already an outlier.
well you were predicting an easy pole and win for Norris, so I think we can take some positives !AR3-GP wrote: ↑30 Jun 2024, 19:12I'm not sure it was positive performance wise. I think they were flattered in qualifying because Norris was not feeling well and didn't do a great lap when Verstappen did a great lap. Mclaren did not improve their sprint qualifying speed in the main qualifying like everyone else so that was already an outlier.
The race itself was similar to previous races. Verstappen complaining at the ends of stints and the car having no grip. Hard compound continues to be a weakness as well. Why did they save 2 sets of the hards... Knowing the characteristics of the car, they should not be saving hard compound tires in free practice. Why is this clear to me, and not them? All of the bad stints this year were on the hardest compound tire.