2016 McLaren F1 Team - Honda

[Vasconia]

Does this ease any of your troubles?
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.ph ... -2017-step

Not so much, it sounds quite ambiguous like previous statements from the team.

[Sayeman]

i know it's practise but things are not looking good right now. Time to blame the PU?

[vantage87]

FP 1

[maguetox]

i know it's practise but things are not looking good right now. Time to blame the PU?

As I said in another forum. EB was covering his derrier with the declarations. I bet he is going to blame Honda for this showing.

[Alonsofor2017]

calm down everybody, they are the only team to have only used the hardest tires which means there pace is very unrepresantative

[Alonsofor2017]

they are even ahead of sauber using the ulrasofts

and they brought more softs and supersofts than most other teams to this weekend so they need to use them and gain knowledge from them in the practices

[Sayeman]

Pace on Ultrasoft isn't good either, 3rd best chassis afterall.
And how underrated is that Toro-rosso chassis?

[CjC]

What positions were they in, in last years practice sessions?

[jonas_linder]

What positions were they in, in last years practice sessions?

They were

FP1: 11 and 12
FP2: 8 and 15

http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-results/9 ... rand-prix/
http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-results/9 ... rand-prix/

[Tauri_J]

https://www.formula1.com/content/fom-we ... sults.html

[Sonador]

FP 1

http://i64.tinypic.com/4lfryp.png

Do you also have a screenprint, with sectortimes of FP2??

[Serbian4ever]

I again started to believe that McLarens gap in chassis is bigger then Hondas gap in pu.
Let me explain, if gap to mercedes is 2 sec i think more then 1 sec is gap because of chassis.

[godlameroso]

Are you saying that Mclaren has been winning with mediocre aero all this time(until 2012), and the fact that they had the works Mercedes engine was hiding how mediocre their chassis was?

[McG]

I don't think McLaren will be any better at Monaco good chassis or not. There's probably more chance of them being slower because of the relatively poor drivability of the engine. There's nothing McLaren can do until Honda give them updates. I hope Ricciardo does well so it shows that an engine upgrade can indeed make a difference even at Monaco.

[CjC]

What positions were they in, in last years practice sessions?

They were

FP1: 11 and 12
FP2: 8 and 15

http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-results/9 ... rand-prix/
http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-results/9 ... rand-prix/

Thank you
So performance wise you can argue that they haven't made any relative progress