LionsHeart wrote: ↑17 Oct 2024, 21:05
CjC wrote: ↑17 Oct 2024, 20:52
LionsHeart wrote: ↑17 Oct 2024, 19:30
You know perfectly well that I know this. I'm ruling out McLaren for now because their pace with full tanks is not as excellent as with an empty tank. But you can't change the front end of the T-Tray floor during the race, right? I mean, McLaren is already fast with an empty tank in race conditions. Why would they make the car even faster in qualifying for one fast lap? Their weak point is the standing starts and the pace in the first phase of the race.
I don't discuss other teams in this thread. This thread is about McLaren. I just wrote my assumptions about it. I'm more interested in what surprise Stella was talking about earlier about the upgrade package for the last six races.
What did Stella say earlier about the surprise?
‘Surprise there isn’t an upgrade’?
Stella said they were preparing a surprise. As far as I understood, he was talking about technical updates that will still be coming this season. I'll go look for where I saw this a month ago.
Okay, I found this post on Russian-language autosport from September 17. Indeed, a month ago.
“McLaren are preparing a surprise with the upgrades – we are almost done with the development of new parts, I can confirm that we have some for the next races. I don’t want to give away too many details about what will happen and when, but we have a plan to make the car faster. Whether we will succeed or not, we will see, because I think we have all seen that at this level of development of the car, changing the technical characteristics of the car is not an easy task. But that is why we have taken a little bit more time to make sure that what we bring to the track will be successful,” Andrea Stella told Motorsport Week.
