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[Hammer278]

Meanwhile McLaren’s Martin Whitmarsh said: “I think it will be sorted out shortly.”

Why not sort out your pit crew in the meantime. It's been 6 races you m*r*n.

[FerrariFan63]

Meanwhile McLaren’s Martin Whitmarsh said: “I think it will be sorted out shortly.”

Why not sort out your pit crew in the meantime. It's been 6 races you m*r*n.

Are there still any of the original pit crew from the first race left?

[Hammer278]

Who knows how McLaren operate. They probably have a whole new crew for each race weekend so that 'everyone gets a turn'.

[FerrariFan63]

Who knows how McLaren operate. They probably have a whole new crew for each race weekend so that 'everyone gets a turn'.

My post was a joke, but we do know that four or five McLaren personnel left after one weekend, so it could be a small number who have stayed all year.

[geetface9]

CONSPIRACY AGAINST WEBBER

I'm j/k! I'm not a vettel fan

[vaptin]

Who knows how McLaren operate. They probably have a whole new crew for each race weekend so that 'everyone gets a turn'.

My post was a joke, but we do know that four or five McLaren personnel left after one weekend, so it could be a small number who have stayed all year.

Whitmarsh did say they had changed their entire pit-crew for Barcelona.

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Anyway, if McLaren had left Lewis out later, his tyres would've just worn out more surely, and Alonso would've been even faster on his in-lap.

If the pit-stop had been faster, Ferrari might even have decided to have Alonso do another flying lap before pitting (unlikely), but the main problem was Alonso gained a lot of time on Hamilton by posting a fast in-lap. Looks like he learned from Barcelona, where he pushed on fresh tyres couldn't get passed Maldonaldo and ended up quite far off the lead at the end of the race. Although saving tyres then pushing on your in and out lap is a common tactic in formula one, less so nowdays because of DRS but that doesn't count in Monaco.

[bud]

Who knows how McLaren operate. They probably have a whole new crew for each race weekend so that 'everyone gets a turn'.

My post was a joke, but we do know that four or five McLaren personnel left after one weekend, so it could be a small number who have stayed all year.

Thought that was just rumours?
Anyhow their stop wasn't bad it just wasn't as quick as Ferraris, it was 4.3 while Ferraris was 3.7. This is a team sport McLarens not existing just for Lewis they're all in it together, some Lewis fans need to start acting like team players and quit the finger pointing and support the team into performing better!

[mugshot]

Love this article - Gracious Button applauds Webber victory - is it me or is he taking the mick....not so gracious to Heikki Kovalainen in his comments.

[FerrariFan63]

Love this article - Gracious Button applauds Webber victory - is it me or is he taking the mick....not so gracious to Heikki Kovalainen in his comments.

He said that Kovalainen placed his car well and had good drive out of the corners. At least in that article it doesn't look to me that Button is being critical of Kovalainen.

[The Second Coming]

Who knows how McLaren operate. They probably have a whole new crew for each race weekend so that 'everyone gets a turn'.

My post was a joke, but we do know that four or five McLaren personnel left after one weekend, so it could be a small number who have stayed all year.

Whitmarsh did say they had changed their entire pit-crew for Barcelona.

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Anyway, if McLaren had left Lewis out later, his tyres would've just worn out more surely, and Alonso would've been even faster on his in-lap.

If the pit-stop had been faster, Ferrari might even have decided to have Alonso do another flying lap before pitting (unlikely), but the main problem was Alonso gained a lot of time on Hamilton by posting a fast in-lap. Looks like he learned from Barcelona, where he pushed on fresh tyres couldn't get passed Maldonaldo and ended up quite far off the lead at the end of the race. Although saving tyres then pushing on your in and out lap is a common tactic in formula one, less so nowdays because of DRS but that doesn't count in Monaco.

As a team, we're just poor at the moment. Poor in terms of consistency, strategy and action in the pits. This is no secret. The problem for the team is the time it's taking them to sort themselves out. They are losing massive ground to the same competitors over whom they had such an advantage at the beginning of the season.

I'm just saying...

[madbrad]

What do you mean WE?
Are you on the team?

[madbrad]

First thing Lewis did after flubbing the start yet again was get on the radio and blame the team. You all heard it. Calvin you're just highly biased toward Lewis. It's clouding your judgement.

What did you expect to happen? Should he be complimenting them?

I expected him do exacly as he did, blame the team. What he should do is take responsibility for his own bad start like all the other drivers do.

[Hammer278]

What do you mean WE?
Are you on the team?

I always wonder the same thing with football fans.

[Hammer278]

First thing Lewis did after flubbing the start yet again was get on the radio and blame the team. You all heard it. Calvin you're just highly biased toward Lewis. It's clouding your judgement.

What did you expect to happen? Should he be complimenting them?

I expected him do exacly as he did, blame the team. What he should do is take responsibility for his own bad start like all the other drivers do.

When the team tells you to do certain things at the start, and you follow the start procedure...and you get the worst start compared to others around you, you do start to question those people you're forced to listen to. It's something they will look into for the next race, if Lewis made that bad start by himself I'm pretty sure he would have shut up and admitted it/kept quiet.

It was funny to hear him tell his engineer during the Safety Car "Lots of debris at Turn 1, please check my tyre pressures" I literally LoL'ed...even he doesn't trust his engineer to check these simple things without being told.

[madbrad]

Unless something broke, it's operator error. If there's a problem, he would have the same issue leaving every pitstop.

Plus he likes to act like the team's mother. You mentioned how he asked them to check the tire pressure, and a couple of races previous he said "what was that, guys?" after he ran over something leaving his pitstop. His job is to drive but he has appointed himself team philosopher as well.