• McLaren strategy

    From Falscher Bruce@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 12 15:09:26 2021
    we got a crap car, so let's go low-drag for Monza, see what happens?

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  • From Mark Jackson@21:1/5 to Falscher Bruce on Sun Sep 12 18:35:51 2021
    On 9/12/2021 6:09 PM, Falscher Bruce wrote:
    we got a crap car, so let's go low-drag for Monza, see what happens?


    Harsh. Before Monza McLaren were contending strongly with Ferrari for
    third, and with nearly double the points of Alpine in 5th. Moreover
    they were clearly making the best use of the Mercedes engine of any of
    the customer teams.

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  • From XYXPDQ@21:1/5 to Falscher Bruce on Sun Sep 12 18:06:50 2021
    On Sunday, September 12, 2021 at 3:09:28 PM UTC-7, Falscher Bruce wrote:
    we got a crap car, so let's go low-drag for Monza, see what happens?


    Worked.

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  • From ~misfit~@21:1/5 to Mark Jackson on Mon Sep 13 16:59:27 2021
    On 13/09/2021 10:35 am, Mark Jackson wrote:
    On 9/12/2021 6:09 PM, Falscher Bruce wrote:
    we got a crap car, so let's go low-drag for Monza, see what happens?


    Harsh.  Before Monza McLaren were contending strongly with Ferrari for third, and with nearly
    double the points of Alpine in 5th.  Moreover they were clearly making the best use of the Mercedes
    engine of any of the customer teams.

    Agreed. The McLaren car is very good at accelerating and braking and has a good top speed. It's not
    so good at low / medium speed corners (well *corners* really) though so Monza really suited them.
    Ricciardo in particular as he's great on the brakes. (Lando is more of an all-rounder and was
    making up time on Dan in the corners.)

    I was blown away by the last lap fastest lap by Dan though. I wasn't expecting that.
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