the old boy network certainly is buzzing - he hasnt had anything to do with the F1 operation for a while though
Thought he was on automotive side.
I read that yesterday and thought it was good, I also think that even if what happened with Max and Lewis didn't happen and they finished the race Daniel Ricciardo would have still most likely won. He won because he made a brilliant start to the race and controlled it well from then on, he looked after his tyres and after he pitted it would have been hard for anyone to overtake him, he deserved the win and it was no fluke.Ground Effect wrote: ↑17 Sep 2021, 09:05Nice piece on Ricciardo, the man of the moment. With all the talk about pace and Lando getting close, here’s an interesting bit.
Ricciardo says: "There was one lap in particular, not long after the restart (following the crash between Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton) when I let him get too close and I probably gave him the impression I was maybe not that fast. And I think that's when he probably said 'I want to try and attack Daniel'.
"I could see in my mirrors, Turn Two into Curva Grande and into the next chicane, he was probably even closer than I let Max get at the start of the race.
"I was like, 'OK, I don't need to be saving (tyres) this much, so then I kind of turned it up a little bit. With the restarts and the craziness of the racing these days, I was always trying to save a little bit, just in case there was another restart. Could I have won by 20 seconds? I'm not saying I could have, no, but I was just doing what I had to."
Full article.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/58578393
I used to know some people professionally who worked at Applied Technology and they always spoke about Neale nervously... They also mentioned how a lot of things used to be "not allowed" when Dennis was running the place, overall many of them seemed relieved those days were over.
that has caught me out before as well, think I saw a while back some jobs being advertised to work for Mclaren in the construction industry and I was like ‘what the?? They are an F1 team....’ then realised they are 2 different companies.mwillems wrote: ↑19 Sep 2021, 08:58I had no idea we had a construction arm, but apparently we are building Aston Martins new HQ
https://www.constructionenquirer.com/20 ... tory-race/
Edit: I don't think they are related. They built our MTC, use orange and have Mclaren in the title, but I don't see any financial links.
They make baby buggies too, I've seen themmwillems wrote: ↑19 Sep 2021, 08:58I had no idea we had a construction arm, but apparently we are building Aston Martins new HQ
https://www.constructionenquirer.com/20 ... tory-race/
Edit: I don't think they are related. They built our MTC, use orange and have Mclaren in the title, but I don't see any financial links.
hahahaCjC wrote: ↑19 Sep 2021, 10:34that has caught me out before as well, think I saw a while back some jobs being advertised to work for Mclaren in the construction industry and I was like ‘what the?? They are an F1 team....’ then realised they are 2 different companies.mwillems wrote: ↑19 Sep 2021, 08:58I had no idea we had a construction arm, but apparently we are building Aston Martins new HQ
https://www.constructionenquirer.com/20 ... tory-race/
Edit: I don't think they are related. They built our MTC, use orange and have Mclaren in the title, but I don't see any financial links.
It would have been funny for a construction firm within the Mclaren group to build Strolls factory though
HAHA would have been like the infamous construction of the US embassy in Russia during the Cold War. Walls like swiss cheese with bugs. They had to tear down the building and build it again!