[ 2020 ] Mclaren F1 Team - Renault

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Xero wrote:
13 Sep 2020, 16:55
mwillems wrote:
13 Sep 2020, 16:51
SmallSoldier wrote:
13 Sep 2020, 16:49

Safety Car... Stroll out, this is great for us!!! We needed RP to score less points today

The tires seem to be struggling a lot, I don’t think staying out was a good idea


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It was a risk but if we had, we'd be a place ahead now with a free change under the Red Flag :(
Have to be proactive in those situations. No need to gamble. Even on softs from this restart perez will be marginal, he ate his first set badly. Good clean start off the line would help!
Yeah, I just felt like a Red flag was going to happen with the car being in the gravel and the behaviour of the stewards in this and the last race, but your right I think, better safe than sorry.

If we can get past Perez then in terms of the Constructors Championship, we couldn't have hoped for better today. Couldn't have been any better at all.

Unless Daniels car has an unfortunate accident.

I'm going to go look for my tin foil hat.

Edit: Darth-Pikeus has taken it, and the five spares that I had.
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Imagine if Hamilton and Bottas have an incident at the start taking Riccardo, Albon and Perez along and making Norris the leader. That would be hilarious.

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Darth-Piekus wrote:
13 Sep 2020, 17:01
Imagine if Hamilton and Bottas have an incident at the start taking Riccardo, Albon and Perez along and making Norris the leader. That would be hilarious.
I think your posts are hilarious, and not in a way that typically reflects well on you..!
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mwillems wrote:
13 Sep 2020, 17:02
Darth-Piekus wrote:
13 Sep 2020, 17:01
Imagine if Hamilton and Bottas have an incident at the start taking Riccardo, Albon and Perez along and making Norris the leader. That would be hilarious.
I think your posts are hilarious, and not in a way that typically reflects well on you..!
Then you should know that I'm joking cause I said imagine if that happened.In any case let's see what happens in these last 13 laps.

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mwillems wrote:
Darth-Piekus wrote:
13 Sep 2020, 17:01
Imagine if Hamilton and Bottas have an incident at the start taking Riccardo, Albon and Perez along and making Norris the leader. That would be hilarious.
I think your posts are hilarious, and not in a way that typically reflects well on you..!
Hahaha


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Oh the nerves...!
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Albon almost took Lando out


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SmallSoldier wrote:
13 Sep 2020, 17:17
Albon almost took Lando out


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Yeah, pretty much nudged him off the track. Not enough for a sanction though.

Happy for Albon though in a way, I'd like him to push on and stay in the team.
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Well our race is with Perez.

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We are two seconds behind, not much of a race right now :/
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As soon as I wrote that we are 2.5 seconds behind. Something is up.

We are in trouble.
Tyres not warm enough?
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Lando broke DRS to Kvyat, but he needs to open a bigger gap... That’s making me nervous


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I'm inclined to believe that Philipm was right yesterday, suggesting the car is set up for preserving the tyres, Lando has been weak at the start of every stint and these repeated restarts have hurt them today. Overall pace has been weak from Friday really.

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7 more laps but I think that 8 points are OK for today.

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Chalke wrote:
13 Sep 2020, 17:23
I'm inclined to believe that Philipm was right yesterday, suggesting the car is set up for preserving the tyres, Lando has been weak at the start of every stint and these repeated restarts have hurt them today. Overall pace has been weak from Friday really.
Possibly, we are just starting to get closer to Perez slowly now, so perhaps this is it.

Enough time to get close to him? I don't think so, but then we only need to be in DRS range and then the pass is pretty easy, so 1.5 seconds to make before we can take him.

Let's see how it works out .

Edit: Now stabilised at 2.3. Game over I think.
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