2024 Mclaren Formula 1 Team

[Macklaren]

It's amazing how the things that in the last 5 years people would classify as "bad luck", people around here are calling "omgz incompetent strategy" now. Just like Hungary Oscar needlessly made his life more difficult with his pitstop mistake. As for poor pace in dirty air, EVERYONE had the same problem in the top 10. They need to bring back the old kemmel straight DRS

[mwillems]

It was the sum of mistakes snd misfortunes. Leclerc alone cost him aditional 2 seconds.

It's why I wouldn't be so hard on strategy. 4 seconds closer with a faster car. It could have been Oscar's.

Indeed. I must admit i thought George would get eaten by lap 40...

Toto said as much. Obviously the track had much more evolution and grip in it than we thought.

[Gillian]

Very good drive by Piastri! This kid keeps improving every race! Norris was a bit sloppy but still great pace overall. It's fine margins right now... More wins to come for both drivers I'm sure.

[mwillems]

It's amazing how the things that in the last 5 years people would classify as "bad luck", people around here are calling "omgz incompetent strategy" now. Just like Hungary Oscar needlessly made his life more difficult with his pitstop mistake. As for poor pace in dirty air, EVERYONE had the same problem in the top 10. They need to bring back the old kemmel straight DRS

I don't think the teams choices were as bad as some suggest. But they still weren't good. We don't look like we want to call the shots at the front, take risks... we seems largely reactive. We do need to improve.

You saw how tight it was at the end and how tight it is every race.

Fine margins count. But if you're going to call out the team, call out the driver too. They managed to equally do themselves out of a chance to win.

It's just that I know Oscar will improve and he's only 1.5 seasons into his career, so you can let it go. Team need to improve a bit.


Also, Mclaren fans behaving spoilt and entitled with commentators suggestions about pace, tin foil hats on if any suggests the team are running fast on Friday. Lando for the WDC... I mean, fans need to get a grip too.

[Ben1980]

Lando needs to buck up his race starts. So far all starts have been botched up big Time

All?

[Darth-Piekus]

Positives and negatives

Positive is that we got 10 more points and the difference is now 43. The car is well balanced and we are gonna eat them all alive in Zadvoort and GPs that dont have enough straights.

Negatives is the person responsible for the terrible strategies, Lando's terrible starts amd the lack of big packages. Lando if you continue like this you arent gonna be champion. Not today not tomorrow even if you got the best car.

[mwillems]

Lando needs to buck up his race starts. So far all starts have been botched up big Time

All?

He's thrown away several places and many points this year. Much more than the 7 points he "lost" from last race.

[PapayaFan481]

We took points out of Red Bull in the WCC. That's a positive. Mercedes rolled the dice and came up double sixes today, could just have easily gone the other way for Russell. McLaren could have tried the same with Lando, indeed when they initially left him out before the first stop, I thought they were trying a 1 stop.

C'est la vie. Team wasn't on top form today. Lando made a mistake at turn 1 that cost him massively, ultimately it may have cost him the win as he was right there with Oscar going into T1. Oscar made that mistake at his second stop (the mechanic is going to ache tomorrow!! Thankfully I believe they actually train for how to react in that situation and he didn't look like he took TOO much energy into his body) which also may have cost him the win. Strategy wasn't the best.

But honestly on what I think we could class as an off-weekend, we still scored good points, got a podium and reduced the lead in the WCC. It's not that long ago we'd have been happy with that outcome. It speaks volumes of the team's progress that we're now disappointed with it!!

Bring on the rest of the season!!

[PapayaFan481]

Lando needs to buck up his race starts. So far all starts have been botched up big Time

All?

Watching the reply of the start, Lando got away well, it was going off in T1 that cost him.

[BMMR61]

Lots of wise-after-the-event criticism. There was great mystery of how the track would evolve, how the tyres would degrade, and how the shorter DRS zone would work. It proved to be a very hard track to overtake on. Even Lewis with much fresher tyres couldn't get it done at the end.

Oscar came flying home, rattling off 46s nearly a second a lap quicker than the leaders. I agree that a decent pitstop would have given him a shot at the win but the overtake would be hard if the two Merc were together anyway. Lando, well what can you say? Is he learning anything now he has a competitive car, same errors. Oscar is improving at such a rate and is looking the more reliable racer.

[chasefreak]

Lando needs to buck up his race starts. So far all starts have been botched up big Time

All?

I can’t remember when did he get a good start after being in the fastest car

[chasefreak]

Lando needs to buck up his race starts. So far all starts have been botched up big Time

All?

Watching the reply of the start, Lando got away well, it was going off in T1 that cost him.

But that’s always been the issue. He is not able to keep it clean

[chasefreak]

The team needs to have that killer instinct It’s missing the all out attack. And that’s killing me too

[BMMR61]

It's amazing how the things that in the last 5 years people would classify as "bad luck", people around here are calling "omgz incompetent strategy" now. Just like Hungary Oscar needlessly made his life more difficult with his pitstop mistake. As for poor pace in dirty air, EVERYONE had the same problem in the top 10. They need to bring back the old kemmel straight DRS

Also, Mclaren fans behaving spoilt and entitled with commentators suggestions about pace, tin foil hats on if any suggests the team are running fast on Friday. Lando for the WDC... I mean, fans need to get a grip too.

Totally agree, it's been tooo easy for some people to lose themselves. The team said that 2024 they wanted to be in a position to fight for wins, 2025 for championships. Well we're still on for a possible WCC, so we need to be very excited at where we have got to and know that there's a lot being learnt now about how to win, rather than just go fast.

[mwillems]

All?

Watching the reply of the start, Lando got away well, it was going off in T1 that cost him.

But that’s always been the issue. He is not able to keep it clean

He keeps it clean, but I don't think he's been very savvy up to and around the first corner, coupled with some slower starts.