2018 McLaren F1 Team - Renault

[GhostF1]

If McLaren go for papaya orange it will probably be the full car including wings with a few blue surfaces and blue driver numbers like the Indycar. Which would IMO look great, it's a timeless classic livery unlike last year's orange/black which will date very fast (not ugly but has a bit of a Marussia vibe).

I know a lot of people talk down on the MCL32 livery, even I was less than amazed at the reveal, but the more I watched the races, the more I found to love the livery. Videos of the cars flying down the straight from head on, the car looked fantastic in that orange. Tarocco Orange.. I vastly prefer over the classic Papaya, especially on these modern cars.

[Raleigh]

Yeah, orange was definitely the best part of that livery, and head on you just saw the orange so the car looked great. Not as big a fan of the side profile though, if McLaren was to come up with a new livery more heavily based on last years orange I certainly wouldn't be unhappy.

[Joseki]

Good news for Alonso.

I've heard that the two days of filming day before pre season testing aren't 100% sure yet, but they are probably going to be scheduled on a spanish track (not Barcelona). A single delay from a partner or inside Woking can cause a reschedule so it's all up in the air at the moment.

Update: a spanish publication is reporting that McLaren will do a filming day on February 22 at Navarra.

https://www.momentogp.com/mclaren-tendr ... e-navarra/

[Lucky]

[media]https://twitter.com/McLarenF1/status/959409902925074433 [/media]

[mclaren111]

F1i.com

Boullier:

"It's only normal for Renault to give reliability the utmost importance, especially with the introduction this year of the new three-engine limit. I need that reliability.

"In the past three years, McLaren has been missing data related to tyre degradation, brake cooling, fuel consumption"

"Now, we can regain a few habits that we had lost. For example, we're doing pit stop practice once again, something we had temporarily discarded in order to work on the engine."

Interesting comments.

[bauc]

So livery will be Orange, White and Black same as last year just in different shape/ratio

[bauc]

Boullier:

"Now, we can regain a few habits that we had lost. For example, we're doing pit stop practice once again, something we had temporarily discarded in order to work on the engine."

Hmm... How is pit stop practice related to Engine? Maybe the men & time required to change one did not allowed the team enough free time to practice other things?

[RedNEO]

So livery will be Orange, White and Black same as last year just in different shape/ratio

Well they had grey team wear last year and the car wasn’t grey so I wouldn’t be so sure. They should go for chrome with maybe an orange racing stripe.

[RonDennis]

Boullier:

"Now, we can regain a few habits that we had lost. For example, we're doing pit stop practice once again, something we had temporarily discarded in order to work on the engine."

Hmm... How is pit stop practice related to Engine? Maybe the men & time required to change one did not allowed the team enough free time to practice other things?

I think they just stopped caring.

[CBeck113]

Boullier:

"Now, we can regain a few habits that we had lost. For example, we're doing pit stop practice once again, something we had temporarily discarded in order to work on the engine."

Hmm... How is pit stop practice related to Engine? Maybe the men & time required to change one did not allowed the team enough free time to practice other things?

If the car is on the jacks for engine repairs you can't really practice pit stops...

[RedNEO]

Gotta love how Fernando and McLaren handle that. Much to learn for other Teams.

https://twitter.com/McLarenF1/status/958294259425300480

For those wondering:

McLaren and Fernando are in full agreement that Formula 1 remains their shared top priority. As such, Fernando will compete in every round of the 2018 FIA Formula 1 World Championship, and will dovetail his sports car commitments around grands prix.

As a result, he will not contest WEC’s Japanese round, at the Fuji Speedway on October 21, due to it clashing with the US Grand Prix, held at the Circuit of the Americas, in Austin, Texas.

It’s great
And now that Fuji want to change dates to accommodate him he could win the championship.

[NathanOlder]

Boullier:

"Now, we can regain a few habits that we had lost. For example, we're doing pit stop practice once again, something we had temporarily discarded in order to work on the engine."

Hmm... How is pit stop practice related to Engine? Maybe the men & time required to change one did not allowed the team enough free time to practice other things?

If the car is on the jacks for engine repairs you can't really practice pit stops...

Part practice was going on though. The front and rear jack man was getting a hell of a lot of practice.

[techman]

Boullier:

"It's only normal for Renault to give reliability the utmost importance, especially with the introduction this year of the new three-engine limit. I need that reliability.

"In the past three years, McLaren has been missing data related to tyre degradation, brake cooling, fuel consumption"

"Now, we can regain a few habits that we had lost. For example, we're doing pit stop practice once again, something we had temporarily discarded in order to work on the engine."

so funny the number of excuses mclaren and EB ditch out, just to put honda down. i have seen pitstop practices when the pit crew push the car into the pitstop and change tyres and they do them in their factories and all teams do this except mclaren? another excuses to hide their performances under the disguise of honda engine issue. believe me there will be more excuse coming this season.

[Squid]

F1i.com

Boullier:

"It's only normal for Renault to give reliability the utmost importance, especially with the introduction this year of the new three-engine limit. I need that reliability.

"In the past three years, McLaren has been missing data related to tyre degradation, brake cooling, fuel consumption"

"Now, we can regain a few habits that we had lost. For example, we're doing pit stop practice once again, something we had temporarily discarded in order to work on the engine."

Interesting comments.

Not surprised that this is coming from Boullier's mouth. The Honda engine was responsible for a lot of the season's failures, but to pin the blame on it for McLaren's shitty pit stops is beyond ridiculous. McLaren has been notorious for bad pit stops since way before Honda.

[mclaren111]

Not sure if this has been discussed before ? Apologies if it has.

Any idea how Alonso's kimoa deal works ?

Does he pay like others sponsors ? Maybe a reduction in his salary ? Or free advertising just to keep him ?


Thanks