McLaren have finally announced their new driver line-up for 2015 as it embarks on a new era with Honda power. While Fernando Alonso joins from Ferrari, Jenson Button is retained as a racing racing. Kevin Magnussen will stay at the team as test and reserve driver.
Well, how could overtake today at all? Only Bottas who was much quicker than guys ahead.McG wrote:Button only made up places due to good strategy and other people messing up. So I'm pleased that there was a good strategy but worried that Button couldn't overtake people.
I'm McLaren fan as well, and I didn't expect this neither. But to be fair, they have had some luck. Mercs are not as reliable causing Hamilton's DNF. And Williams didn't have muck luck neither. I don't know where to place RB, maybe if they wouldn't have played tricks with the fuel sensor they would have been slower. I think MCL is no match for Merc, but Merc has poor reliability. I guess MCL is racing Williams at the moment, with RB behand them.adrianjordan wrote:So honestly, who expected McLaren to come away from the first race leading the WCC..??
I didn't and I'm a huge McLaren fan.
http://www.espn.co.uk/mclaren/motorspor ... 49957.html"We have upgrades for the next race, but I still don't think it will be enough to challenge them just yet. If it can put us into the gap between them and everyone else then that will be a good step forward. We just have to keep pushing the team for upgrades, but they have already got their heads down and there is some good stuff coming in the pipeline. I don't know when a win will happen, but it's what we are working towards."
I'm open to correction on this but I believe technically they never ran 'rocket red' on the car, all the red bits would have been Vodafone red?McG wrote:Pretty weird seeing McLaren without any rocket red on their car.
“It’s a luxury not to have a role in the team, if you stand back, you can watch what’s going on. The thing is, everybody is receptive to change, everybody knows we have to change, and when you change things you get better. The outcome of today was a really good team effort. They called the pit stops at the right time, they were agile with the safety car, stops were all well executed, tire utilization, fuel; everything was well executed.
“I’m pleased about the discipline of the team. Everyone knows what we have to do, and we’ve just got to get on and do it.”
“We don’t have the pace yet, but these earlier races are when you can accumulate points. We have very clear milestones of input performance; we know when we can realistically expect to win races. Don’t ask the question, I’m not going to tell you. You don’t arrive back where you want to be just overnight, it takes time.
Nope, they had it before with West as wellGridlock wrote:I'm open to correction on this but I believe technically they never ran 'rocket red' on the car, all the red bits would have been Vodafone red?McG wrote:Pretty weird seeing McLaren without any rocket red on their car.
Maybe they (Vodafone) have changed the shade of the color but the most important thing is the overall looks of the car and I'm just hoping that the rocket red will be back in the next race with possibly a new title sponsor on the car?!McG wrote:I'm also open to correction but I think vodafone actually changed their shade of red to fit McLaren. I think I remember reading it somewhere. Maybe there were several shades of red I don't know. But all I know is that its strange to see McLaren without red. I even have a little tattoo that has the McLaren red logo. It's part of bigge non F1 tattoo so not like I went crazy!
