2024 Mclaren Formula 1 Team

[SoulPancake13]

1) Max, Lando, Lecerc
2) Hamilton, Alonso, Russel.
3) Sainz, Piastri, Hulk.

Piastri isnt in the top 6 of best drivers of this moment, just lacks about 2 tenths.

How do you compare drivers in midfield cars like the AM or Haas to drivers who are in the best cars? They rarely directly race each other and are aiming for different goals (points vs podiums).

There is no obvious LiCo visible in the data, but I'll take your word for it, assuming you've heard it from a reliable source. There are a bunch of bad laps, but most due to traffic.

Leclerc had to Lico a ton, according to his radios. You may be able to use Sainz as a comparison for this as he was not asked to Lico as much.

I don't get the post, it's confirming he was not lifting and coasting as instructed? This seems actually contradict your point.

How so? Bryan keeps telling Leclerc to keep up the LiCo, not that he wasn't doing it. Either way, the second stint is hard to reasonably discern pace wise.

I think Ferrari were the strongest by far on heavy fuel, which gained them a huge advantage in the first part of the stint, which they could then manage to the finish line.

[dialtone]

I don't get the post, it's confirming he was not lifting and coasting as instructed? This seems actually contradict your point.

Lap 51 on 25 laps old tires and one of this fastest laps (2 fast laps in succession 50-51) and lap 35 on 9 lap old and fairly average for that stint.

There's a lot of lift and coast on first straight, in the esses, T16-17-18-19 and the follow on straight he's not really pushing the car either. Most of the high speed braking points he's braking earlier.

Ferrari's pace wasn't as strong on the hards, but it was certainly on level at least and it's clear LEC wasn't pushing the car.

[mwillems]

I don't get the post, it's confirming he was not lifting and coasting as instructed? This seems actually contradict your point.

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Lap 51 on 25 laps old tires and one of this fastest laps (2 fast laps in succession 50-51) and lap 35 on 9 lap old and fairly average for that stint.

There's a lot of lift and coast on first straight, in the esses, T16-17-18-19 and the follow on straight he's not really pushing the car either. Most of the high speed braking points he's braking earlier.

Ferrari's pace wasn't as strong on the hards, but it was certainly on level at least and it's clear LEC wasn't pushing the car.

I certainly think he wasn't going all out, don't get me wrong, I just don't see any evidence he could have gone considerably faster and maintained it for a full stint.

[mwillems]

Tell that to the trolls coming here posting out of topic BS that have nothing to do about Mclaren and when we specifically said some pages ago that we moved on. Dont play the victim when you pour oil to the fire. After all that is my personal opinion and it has nothing to do if I like a driver or not. Max is an incredible talent but in terms of racecraft hes just a bully.

In any case I have no more energy to bother with that topic or any of the trolls so I will probably start ignoring any other attempt.

No, in fact you'll see me explicitly ask people not to reply to trolls and I'll also ask the mods to look at it. I was fairly close to doing that for your post, so please stop posting utter nonsense simply because you are unable to control your own little tantrums.

[Darth-Piekus]

I don't really have the energy to bother with Max or his trolls anymore and I am glad you mentioned it to the mods. However I am not sure what triggered you here. Was it that I called his racecraft crap? If the word crap offended you then I apologise and allow me to rephrase. Max Verstappen's racecraft is that of a bully. A bully that likes to divebomb others off the track either he is on the attack or defence because he doesn't know of any other way of racing. I simply don't like these kind of drivers. It's a personal preference. Now let's not bring that up again please.

[CMSMJ1]

Right right - enough please.

You might have to rememeber that mdoeration in this place needs the children to listen when being chastised! We cannot be always here and there to keep such inane arguments in check.

Guys - have a break - the tone is antagonistic and doesn't help the thread, this place or your own mental health I am sure.

Where there is need to try and get a raise, and just one more post to "win" the argument..you have already lost.

Bickering and ad hominem attacks are not wanted here - so take it somewhere else.

[Ben1980]

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Really weird first stint. Both McLaren's so slow but here it's Lando vs Leclerc vs Max.

Leclerc and Max both display a normal progression of pace. They start at a certain level, Leclerc a bit faster because he wants to break DRS. Then they both stabilize to a certain level of pace and from there their laptimes get progressively slower the deeper into the stint they go right until they pit.

Lando on the other hand, starts out with horrible performance, getting faster and faster as the stint progresses, until he too (not shown in this graph because it happened a couple of laps later), starts showing signs of tire wear and gets slower before he pits.

Other than those first 15 laps, Lando was on par or faster than Leclerc, discounting the laps stuck behind Max. Hard to gauge the second stint, because of the 5 lap tire delta, but I imagine without that it would have been on par with Leclerc.

Very bizarre car behavior. Perhaps some weird problem with taking too long to get the tires at the right operating window. Maybe an over-correction via the setup in a bid to try and improve the tire wear problems they saw in the sprint.

If it wasn't for that huge slump at the start, Lando would have overcut Max with pace alone, so it's frustrating that they couldn't get the car into the right window. The sprint format really screwed them because they did not hit the ground running from the get-go like RedBull and Ferrari did.

In the first stint, Piastri said on the radio that his graining cleared up around the time the car started lapping at the same pace as the leaders. It does seem like a problem getting into the window.

It's common for McLaren to be much harder on it's tyres relative to it's opposition before picking up pace with the fuel load going down while others are losing pace. There's a number of factors in play here and it can be hard to unpick which are most powerful. I think the Pirelli tyre choice favoured Ferrari for starters, they handled the mediums better but I do think because of the slow start they had to the weekend McLaren underestimated the progress the Saturday setup changes had made. By lap 20 Lando's times were coming down and Max was going the other way, the Ferraris - forget it!

By stint two both McLarens were coming alive. It escaped most people's attention that despite his unhappiness with the setup all weekend Oscar was matching Lando's times, that is catching Max but probably decided to keep a watching brief given all things. The team did a good recovery job from Friday where it looked like we would be poor in qualifying and race pace, certainly vulnerable to the Mercs - imagine P6/7! So I'm pretty impervious to all the whining and huffing and puffing about McLaren dropping the ball, if this was a bad weekend I'll take it. I think Mexico is another chance for podiums even if Ferrari seems to have settled the ship. We need to keep focussed on the WCC, Ferrari will be the big threat there.

On the mention of Oscar, after the pit stops he was 6 or so seconds behind Lando, who was 6 or so behind Max. When Lando was first on the back of Max, Oscar was 8 seconds behind him. He only closed in when they started to squabble .

I may be missing something, but I thought he was underwhelming. If he had been closer he could have challenged Max, and maybe even slowed him down more.

[JPower]

Imo opinion watching it I knew Lando was gunna get a penalty because of how the stewarts ruled earlier incidents.
After been pushed wide Lando should of let Max pass out ahead of that corner and by the rules Max would of got the Penalty.

Think Alonso would of backed off so Max got the penalty, but Lando doesnt have that cunning yet of a Alonso or Max.

off topic, Piastri stocks have fallen imo. Lando is just faster in everyway.

1) Max, Lando, Lecerc
2) Hamilton, Alonso, Russel.
3) Sainz, Piastri, Hulk.

Piastri isnt in the top 6 of best drivers of this moment, just lacks about 2 tenths.

Piastri has a ton of room to grow. I see no reason why his "stocks have fallen". He's no worse than Lando, Leclerc, or Russell in their second years.

Current Alonso is not Tier 2 IMO. I'd argue that Russell and Hamilton's inconsistency this year might put them out of Tier 2 as well. Some of that is the car but they haven't been their best. Lando and Leclerc are however.