2023 - McLaren Formula 1 Team

[Darth-Piekus]

Norris has to save tyres to defend from Hamilton instead of wanting to chase first place.

[Szabi1112]

We should have brought more medium tyre. :/

[Ben1980]

We should have brought more medium tyre. :/

Maybe, but it felt that having 2 hards would be a positive. Its hard without more than one practice though.

[mwillems]

The track has retarded RBs performance, but they are still faster. The cooler temps in the Sprint helped us, the temps today didn't. Its a fight for 3rd.

[Ben1980]

Maybe lewis can do a madness on Max and we can nip in..

[MCLvamos]

Norris has to save tyres to defend from Hamilton instead of wanting to chase first place.

yep, I do like how they've run this race. Punchy and proactive with the strategy looking for that P1, if it costs us P2 that's fine. If its not a win any place on the podium is fine.

[mwillems]

Seems we are now commited to a one stopper.

When he was inside 1 second he could have undercut but now it's too far.

We were not making a one stopper, we are poor on the tyres today.

Not sure anyobe isn't poor on the tyres. Deg is high in the heat.

Max is fine and Ham is better than us, they both ran with a high downforce setup which will have helped. The car has inherent speed though.

[ScottR267]

Looks inevitable Lewis will get Lando here now

[Darth-Piekus]

Its gonna be hard to keep P2 but let's wait and see.

[blastdoman]

Ayayay the tires is going down?

[Slahinki]

Norris has to save tyres to defend from Hamilton instead of wanting to chase first place.

yep, I do like how they've run this race. Punchy and proactive with the strategy looking for that P1, if it costs us P2 that's fine. If its not a win any place on the podium is fine.

Agreed, better to gun for first and fail than to play it safe at this point.

[Szabi1112]

3rd place is not bad anyway.

[blastdoman]

The tires hace done the click. Careful with Ferraris ...

[Darth-Piekus]

Lando did his best. Good Race. Conditions did not help Mclaren but I'll take 3rd.

[FittingMechanics]

Good race. Good fight. Felt we deserved more than P3 but that is life.

I think they could have tried to undercut Verstappen when Norris was within a second - but seeing how Norris tyres fell off I doubt it would have worked.