McLaren have gone through a difficult season, but a proper look at their new MP4-31 suggest they have put in considerable effort to come back from that swiftly.
from sportinglife.comAbhi719 wrote:Reports Sky Sports News HQ's Rachel Brookes: "Just spoke to Eric Boullier & he told me his first impression of the new McLaren is "not good enough" after suffering a few issues this morning. He did follow up with it is just testing.
I have to disagree, last year was a new engine, we know they can do laps already as they have just run a full season proving so. The goal post for this year HAS to be top ten pace, minimum and until we see that there will not be a positive signalRedragon wrote:Sky reporters are sensationalist Murdoch style, I would like to hear the rest of the conversation before conclusions.
If they manage today more than 79 laps it would be a positive signal as it would be the number of laps they did last year over the four days
That's what you'd expect from McLaren though, pushing to make the car better and playing down expectations. Given last year's testing woes, they've had a reasonable day thus far.Abhi719 wrote:Reports Sky Sports News HQ's Rachel Brookes: "Just spoke to Eric Boullier & he told me his first impression of the new McLaren is "not good enough" after suffering a few issues this morning. He did follow up with it is just testing.
What Honda and McLaren have to do is make sure the overall package works, they discover reliability issues and fix them and then look for pace. They could push the MP4-31 to it's limit and break the PU. That won't give them the kind of data they want. I expect they'll push the Power Unit nearer to the end of the week. And we probably won't know what the MP4-31 and the Honda Power Unit is capable of until the first race where you can't really hide flaws.the EDGE wrote:I have to disagree, last year was a new engine, we know they can do laps already as they have just run a full season proving so. The goal post for this year HAS to be top ten pace, minimum and until we see that there will not be a positive signalRedragon wrote:Sky reporters are sensationalist Murdoch style, I would like to hear the rest of the conversation before conclusions.
If they manage today more than 79 laps it would be a positive signal as it would be the number of laps they did last year over the four days
Does that mean that the mark III will run for the first time in Melbourne? That seems overly simplified.vantage87 wrote:from sportinglife.com
Ted has made his way from the pit lane with a story for all you McLaren fans about their partner Honda's progress:
"While most engine manufacturers are here with their bespoke 2016 engine, with which they intend to do the first few races, that's not the case for Honda.
"The power unit in the back of Button and Alonso's car at this test is effectively a mark I 2016 engine incorporating most of the changes Honda knew they needed to make over the winter.
"There will be another new engine, mark II, which will debut for the second test next week and the result of what they learn between the two specs of power unit will be combined into mark III, that they'll take to race in Melbourne.
"So if it doesn't look brilliant for McLaren early on, don't worry, better engine bits are on the way."
, incredible that Honda dont have clear idea of which direction to take
#aerogollumturbof1 wrote: YOU SHALL NOT......STALLLLL!!!
Is one way of looking at it... Another would be that they're being systematic and making incremental changes rather than massive ones...f1rules wrote:
