2024 Mclaren Formula 1 Team

[FittingMechanics]

I'm quite happy with how qualifying went. It's good to see that the car is consistently fast and that the pace in free practice was realistic.

Quite happy? What do you need to be fully happy.

I can only be completely happy after the race, if Lando and Oscar hold their positions until the finish of the race.

I'll drink to that!

[Lucky]

[LionsHeart]

Andrea Stella said on F1TV that they expected Hungary to be favorable for the team as it has plenty of medium speed corners and they are leading car in those type of corners.

So I guess team thinks they are fastest in medium speed.

After the latest front wing update, they are also very quick in slow corners. I would say there is not much understeer now (but I can't say for sure because I haven't watched the onboards of the last two races).

[Kaluh McLaren]

FP1 disaster. Behind a Sauber. Midfield here we come. Hope everyone enjoyed the fun at the front while it lasted!

Who said Mclaren back to midfield?

[LionsHeart]

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The second sector is just great for McLaren. They have had the advantage there all weekend. The amazing thing is that even on the start straight Lando was good.

[Macklaren]

FP1 disaster. Behind a Sauber. Midfield here we come. Hope everyone enjoyed the fun at the front while it lasted!

Who said Mclaren back to midfield?

Those were jokes. People overreact to free practices so we made a joke about it.

Yes thank you FM. one would have thought the 3 LOLs would have made that clear

[Ben1980]

I do think they have to be mindful at the start tomorrow. And also can't be squabbling over positions early, if they make it though the first corners in 1 and 2. They can't let Max have a sniff. Oscar's focus should be keeping him behind.

I know his fans won't like that though.

[FittingMechanics]

I do think they have to be mindful at the start tomorrow. And also can't be squabbling over positions early, if they make it though the first corners in 1 and 2. They can't let Max have a sniff. Oscar's focus should be keeping him behind.

I know his fans won't like that though.

Oscar was quite clear about that in his post qualy interview. They need to think about the constructors championship.

I don't think they will do anything risky.

[Ir3NiCuS]

Mark Hughes, come outside! I wanna ask something!

To be fair the temperatures today were -20 on yesterday.

Tomorrow the air temperature goes back to ~35 degrees that means track temperature will be around 60 celsius. The win will be decided by the tyres management

[willmesquita]

P1/P2 will be Papaya.

Well this aged quite good.. and quite fast

It's been ages since The Team had a 1/2 in pretty much anything. Let's hope everything goes smooth tomorrow

Last time I was there, my first GP! Interlagos 2012. We won!!!

[FittingMechanics]

Can we now agree to stop thinking McLaren is running higher engine modes in free practices?

[LionsHeart]

Can we now agree to stop thinking McLaren is running higher engine modes in free practices?

Speaking of which, I just checked a couple of tables. Well, in free practice and qualifying, McLaren is doing less time at full throttle than Red Bull. And that's very interesting. The same applies to the maximum speed. There is no difference between practice and qualification for both teams. Yes, in the second free practice Red Bull had a lower top speed.

[bauc]

Great result, and the best starting position possible for us tomorrow. We must WIN tomorrow, we must!!! We just need a clean start and we can dictate the race from there. We also need double podium finish (1-2 pray to god) as we have a good chance here to cut the the gap to RBR in constructors championship as PER had another bad qualy today.

[mwillems]

Can we now agree to stop thinking McLaren is running higher engine modes in free practices?

I don't think that narrative ever existed. But sometimes they are pushing a bit more. And sometimes they push a little less. In general Ferrari tend to push a little more than us in practise and this has been a more reliable trait.

RB have, however, been written off and come back in qualifying more than once. Ignoring that is silly. Today was extremely close and the conditions very different from yesterday. RB easily has the capability in different conditions to be the car in front, as it has been many times on a Saturday.

[Darth-Piekus]

We finally got an 1-2 ahead of the competition and I even believe Mclaren had 2 more tenths to give. It's been so long since we dominated a qualification. It reminded me of the glory days of Senna/Prost, Hakkinnen/Coulthard and Alonso/Hamilton. After the orange era of the early 70s, the red white Marlboro era of the 80s and early 90s, the black and white West era of the late 90s and early 2000s and the chrome Vodafone/Emirates era of the late 2000s and early 2010s it's time for the papaya colour to write their own story and what better start than a dominating 1-2 giving a clear message to the drinks company that Mclaren Empire is coming to take back the rightful throne that left vacant for so long. But we only did half the work on Saturday. Tomorrow we need both cars in front of Max and whoever is 2nd must play shield to burn the tyres of Max with dirty air and if possible give him a taste of his own medicine if he tries to force a pass or crash attitude.