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[Nin-Chin]

McLaren's season review

Australia-a clutch software failure costing 1st to Button at the start and bad strategy for Hamilton,Button wins
Malaysia-2 Slow pit stops another low-key strategy,Both struggling with balance(oversteer)and Button's crash.
China-Grid penalty-gearbox for Lewis and slow pit wrecks JB's chances.
Bahrain-TERRIBLE PIT STOPS for Hamilto and Button's puncture and retirement.
Spain-F*cked up quali with a fueling error with Hamilton,Button struggles
Monaco-Poor strategy,no pace,Button spin and crash.
Canada-Button's issues during Friday practice costing him running leading to 16th place,Hamilton wins.
Valencia-Setup issues thoughout Friday and Button lacking pace in the race plus poor strategy,Hamilton taken out of 3rd with less than 3 laps to go by crashtor
Great Britain-No pace in quali and the race.
Germany-another poor quali,but good pace during the race,Hamilton gets puncture and retires with a gearbox failure in his 100th race,Button gets 2nd.
Hungary-Win for Hamilton,poor strategy for Button.
Spa-Win for Button,Hamilton with inferior setup gets caught up in a spectacular La Source crash and taken out.
Monza-Hamilton wins,meanwhile Button retires from 2nd mid-way though the race due to a fuel pick up problem,costing them a double podium or 1-2.
Singapore-Hamilton retires due to a gearbox failure while leading,Button settles for 2nd.
Japan-A suspension issue effects Hamilton's weekend,Button gets 4th
Korea-Button taken out by Kobaycrashi during the first lap,Lewis runs 4th till a rear anti roll bar failure drops him to 10th.
India-Lack pace on soft tires,very fast on hards,Hamilton 4th,Button 5th with fastest lap.


This was written by me.

© Nin-Chin

[racechick]

McLaren or Perez?

[Nin-Chin]

McLaren or Perez?

McLaren

[racechick]

certainly looks that way when you read through that catalogue of disasters.

[bud]

Now lets see Mercs season review so far...

[scotty]

Now lets see Mercs season review so far...

- won one race
- couple of podiums
- fought for scraps of points or in the midfield the rest of the time
- very distant 5th despite considerable resources and perhaps one of the biggest budgets

Does that cover everything in a nutshell?

[Jabberwocky]

You missed not scored a point in a few races

using phone, so beware of predictive text errors.

[racechick]

Yes Lewis had his work cut out next year that's for sure. Can't wait to watch that. But guys this is the Mclaren thread not the Mercedes thread

[What's Burning?]

despite considerable resources and perhaps one of the biggest budgets

This is conjecture on your part but I'm curious as to what makes you say that. Red Bull has outspent everyone even Ferrari the last couple of seasons so Mercedes would have to be putting in well over 200 million dollars a year.

[racechick]

As I understand it Mercedes are constrained by FOTA to RRA whereas Red bull have ingenious methods of avoiding such constraints. I admit to finding the whole RRA situation confusing. Bah. Now you've got me talking about Red Bull AND Mercedes on the 'Mclaren thread!!

[darwin dali]

As I understand it Mercedes are constrained by FOTA to RRA whereas Red bull have ingenious methods of avoiding such constraints.

Ingenious such as getting out of FOTA

[racechick]

As I understand it Mercedes are constrained by FOTA to RRA whereas Red bull have ingenious methods of avoiding such constraints.

Ingenious such as getting out of FOTA

Yes. That's the first one.....of several!

[CookinFlat6]

In the last 5 years since joining McLaren Lewis has managed 25 poles while his teammates (including 2 reigning WCs) have managed 3 in total.

So some genius at the team decided that qualy is not important in this Pirelli era and have contrived to end up with 2 drivers with single pace issues

How does that work?

[Hammer278]

In the last 5 years since joining McLaren Lewis has managed 25 poles while his teammates (including 2 reigning WCs) have managed 3 in total.

So some genius at the team decided that qualy is not important in this Pirelli era and have contrived to end up with 2 drivers with single pace issues

How does that work?

Try recording something like "...but our guys are great racers and will come through the field" and sending the tape to Whitmarsh for 2013 post quali interviews.

[CookinFlat6]

Try recording something like "...but our guys are great racers and will come through the field" and sending the tape to Whitmarsh for 2013 post quali interviews.

Just dont get it, when has the WC been won from row 3 or 4 on the grid?

Do Mclaren expect their car to be suddenly 1 second faster than the rest?

How are they gonna challenge for a WCC (or WDC) with 2 drivers who win when the front runners have issues?

Do they think Red Bull will disappear next year? Or that Button can emulate Alonso this year?

Ah, hold on, maybe they dont intend to challenge and just want to look and talk like a top team hoping that this will make the public who can afford 200k for a road car suddenly decide that the MP-12c is a better purchase than the 458 or Merc SLS?

Mind boggling stuff!

really wish a real McLaren follower could furnish us with some ideas (apart from the usual conspiracy ooh! stuff)

nah all gone silent