2022 - McLaren Formula 1 Team

[Xero]

P6 for Lando, excellent effort!

Chuffed for Carlos, first pole position.

[Ben1980]

P6 is pretty good.

For such an awful car....

[Ground Effect]

If McLaren need extra motivation to put together a front running car, it's Lando Norris, that kid is top tier.

[Swed3120]

Ah, I see Daniel is a back to his usual ways

[McL-H]

Just lost his confidence in the wet with a moving chassis under him. He’s amazing when the ship is on rails seemingly and on par if not faster than NOR when the car responds to his liking. Kinda was unlucky there with not getting the fast laps in when the track was at its best at the start of q2

You can’t keep talking about bad luck when you have to do so on weekly basis.

[Ground Effect]

Disappointing from Daniel, could be a long, tough race, especially since it appears the race strategists have been poor lately.

[JordanMugen]

Keys CV is not as impressive but McLarens results took a jump up the grid when Key joined.

The car fix on the MCL33 resulting in the much improved MCL34 was headed by Pat Fry. But Fry was only on a short contract for some reason. I'm not too sure why Fry wasn't retained by McLaren?

[Stig14]

Disappointing from Daniel, could be a long, tough race, especially since it appears the race strategists have been poor lately.

Unfortunately that's what happens when you don't put the car where it should be on a Saturday. I'm optimistic that the car has the inherent pace this weekend to work its way to the points for Daniel. There's at least a couple of cars ahead who should naturally fall back which will aid his cause.

As for Lando, another superb showing to keep it all together and deliver on what the car is capable of. Hopefully tomorrow he can keep his nose clean and bring home a decent haul of points which we've been missing of late! The straight line speed deficit doesn't seem so prominent here (perhaps because they're able to carry more speed onto the start of the hanger straight?).

[Swed3120]

I Firmly now believe that lando is unstoppable on intermediates.
Sad to see Daniel back to his usual self, barely managing Q2 while his team-mate is fighting for best of the rest.
He seems to only be able to drive the car when it’s naturally slow, thinking back, every weekend Dan was in lando’s pace, the car was generally quite slow, every weekend where we are fighting for P6/7 Daniel is off the pace (bar possibly AUS).
Maybe he just can’t deal with the car when it has raw speed
Biggest threat tommorow will definitely be russel. Imagine a 3 Brit battle of Hamilton, Norris and Russell for best of the rest.

Edit; just realized that Latifi beat Ricciardo by 4 or positions in an in-upgraded Williams , that’s just sad on his part

[UnaF1]

The narrative is still like "oh, poor old Danny, he's soo good in the car with strong front end...". For such an experienced driver, he must have known that it wasn't McLaren's forte, and if he didn't do due diligence on McLaren... well, all that crosses my mind is that he thought more about retirement fond when signing for them, than anything else.
Why oh why is he so unsackable...

[CjC]

Keys CV is not as impressive but McLarens results took a jump up the grid when Key joined.

The car fix on the MCL33 resulting in the much improved MCL34 was headed by Pat Fry. But Fry was only on a short contract for some reason. I'm not too sure why Fry wasn't retained by McLaren?

Fry was offered a short term deal to fill the void till James Key could take up his role at Mclaren. Zac offered Pat a contract but he ultimately wanted the role of James Key so he took the tech chief role at Renault instead

[McL-H]

Keys CV is not as impressive but McLarens results took a jump up the grid when Key joined.

The car fix on the MCL33 resulting in the much improved MCL34 was headed by Pat Fry. But Fry was only on a short contract for some reason. I'm not too sure why Fry wasn't retained by McLaren?

Fry was offered a short term deal to fill the void till James Key could take up his role at Mclaren. Zac offered Pat a contract but he ultimately wanted the role of James Key so he took the tech chief role at Renault instead

Would have been better off with Fry.

[blastdoman]

Qualifying according to what the McLaren season is going to be. Good work by Lando and embarrassing performance by Daniel. I'm looking forward to the end of the season to get this burden off us

[lio007]

Must have been a first in formula on that a mechanic is caught on camera trying to put a rear wheel on the other way round.

Yeah, this was really fun to watch...and the gunman just looking at it at the first moment I couldn't believe what I saw. This is why love this sport, they really thrive for perfection but sometimes things like that happen

[adrianjordan]

Ah, I see Daniel is a back to his usual ways

Just like this thread every race weekend.

Why is it only McLaren fans who can't see the difference between a team thread and a race thread??

Come on guys. It's beyond annoying having to wade through page after page of, effectively, commentary about the practice sessions, qualifying and the race. There's a thread for that. The clue is in the name!!