2019 Mclaren F1 Team - Renault

[willmesquita]

Did Lando do Q2 on medium or soft tyres? Want to know what tyre he is starting on.

Soft

[FittingMechanics]

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Here is the provisional starting grid. It's pretty much confirmed Lando will start fifth tomorrow.

Sainz p20, not p19

Did FIA make a mistake or there is another reason why they are putting Sainz in 19th instead of 20th?

EDIT: I see they fixed it and put Sainz 20th. Now, I see that Albon got two penalties for changing his parts, did he take two engines? What happens with the old engine. If they can still use it, it means a team could theoretically take a bunch of engines in a single race, take the hit to the last place and then use the new engines in the next races.

[geogate]

seems they made mistake - there was a further updated provisional grid after the one posted (to replace previous)

[SmallSoldier]

I know this isn’t nice, but which 2 drivers would you guys not mind seeing take each other out to give Lando a chance at an unlikely podium?

If Leclerc and Max take each other in the first corner... I wouldn’t be too upset


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[Ground Effect]

I get the feeling that McLaren won’t be too pleased with the word on the street regarding their Silverstone upgrade. They probably would prefer to fly under the radar and just show up and make the gains. I really hope the upgrades work as expected/hoped.

[M840TR]

norris q3 lap - mclaren is not great, not terrible in high speed sections. They got beat by magnussen in q3 because he was like 20 kmh faster in T7, which is a lot

https://streamable.com/gp9fg
https://streamable.com/gp9fg

Not surprising, car's still very front limited. If they can fix the front-end that's at least 0.3-0.5 sec there alone on some tracks.

[M840TR]

I get the feeling that McLaren won’t be too pleased with the word on the street regarding their Silverstone upgrade. They probably would prefer to fly under the radar and just show up and make the gains. I really hope the upgrades work as expected/hoped.

Unlike Renault's 0.5 sec France upgrade...

[Emag]

I get the feeling that McLaren won’t be too pleased with the word on the street regarding their Silverstone upgrade. They probably would prefer to fly under the radar and just show up and make the gains. I really hope the upgrades work as expected/hoped.

The team itself though hasn't been boasting about it, and I like it. If you have a nice upgrade coming you don't have to hype it up, instead you let the performance do the talking. That is the mature thing to do, because if you say I am going to gain half a second and you don't, you kinda look like a dork. You never see the big team hyping up their updates or talking specific numbers. McLaren has learned from its mistake last year, with its "magical" spain upgrade that delivered nothing.

[zoroastar]

I know this isn’t nice, but which 2 drivers would you guys not mind seeing take each other out to give Lando a chance at an unlikely podium?

both mercedes and a redbull would be nice. but id be happy as long as somebody besides mercedes just won the race.

[spin1/2]

Why did Sainz bother to go out in Q1 and set a time? Nothing is going to change the last row start.

[geogate]

Why did Sainz bother to go out in Q1 and set a time? Nothing is going to change the last row start.

they wanted to get him into q2 to give Lando a tow

[damager21]

Why did Sainz bother to go out in Q1 and set a time? Nothing is going to change the last row start.

It also gives McLaren additional track time to do final few adjustments to Sainz's car. He will anyways be left with loads of fresh tyres for the race. Happy to see McLaren having pace. Hoping they dont fall back in the race like France and are able to keep up with the Top 3

[ivanlesk]

They won't be able to keep up with top 3.
But hopefully - will be faster than Haas and Alfas.

If they continue to qualify in places from 5-8 in wired race they can grab podium.

[mclaren111]

We are quite a bit faster than Renault this weekend... Very positive...

[Ground Effect]

Which track is closest in characteristics to Silverstone, any of the ones raced already?