2025 McLaren F1 Team

[Jdn1327]

This car doesn't seem as sensitive to wind changes as it was previously...I could be wrong but it seems planted no matter the windspeed.

[CjC]

We shouldn’t expect Lando to do another race sim should we? Just the one yesterday will be his one and only?

[FittingMechanics]

We shouldn’t expect Lando to do another race sim should we? Just the one yesterday will be his one and only?

Probably not. It's too early in the day so not really useful. Ruth Buscombe also said it's quite hard for the car to do two race sims in a day. I expect Piastri will get his race sim later today.

But Norris is out on a hard tire now.

[DragonSGC]

We shouldn’t expect Lando to do another race sim should we? Just the one yesterday will be his one and only?

Probably not. It's too early in the day so not really useful. Ruth Buscombe also said it's quite hard for the car to do two race sims in a day. I expect Piastri will get his race sim later today.

But Norris is out on a hard tire now.

Probably doing a practice session race sim, 12-15 laps and similar a picked fuel level depending on what stint they want to test.

[FittingMechanics]

What was interesting to me was hearing Palmer say that Renault used to do "low fuel runs" in testing with 30kg of fuel and that he thinks they were on lower range of it.

[_cerber1]

I watched Lando's second sector yesterday and today on the long runs. And it was the best sector anyone had, even today Lando did it in 40.0, Kimmy was closer with a time of 40.9.

[genarro]

it's hard not to be excited like a kid on christmas morning..

[Emag]

Car didn't look particularly nice today with the hotter temps to be honest. Don't know if they were messing around with different setups between runs though.

[FittingMechanics]

Car didn't look particularly nice today with the hotter temps to be honest. Don't know if they were messing around with different setups between runs though.

Car didn't look hooked up (many didn't) but still the pace looks good.

[FittingMechanics]

Stella quite positive about the team, test and the car.

Says they took a risks with the changes for this car but that they agreed to do them because they had confidence in their engineering team and that it looks like they were right.

[Emag]

Stella quite positive about the team, test and the car.

Says they took a risks with the changes for this car but that they agreed to do them because they had confidence in their engineering team and that it looks like they were right.

Let's see when we start racing. Can't' really see a picture in terms of pecking order at the moment. There are some rear limitations, which were particularly apparent today, but it won't matter that much if there is a lot of pace.

[CjC]

Stella did play down lando’s long run pace

[Cassius]

Stella did play down lando’s long run pace

But did not succeed. He said that with the colder weather it brought their car into a sweetspot. Just confirms they are significantly faster than Merc and Ferrari.

[Emag]

Stella did play down lando’s long run pace

But did not succeed. He said that with the colder weather it brought their car into a sweetspot. Just confirms they are significantly faster than Merc and Ferrari.

Not really. Temperatures yesterday were not representative. Lets see how will Oscar’s long run look today with the higher temps.

[organic]

Stella did play down lando’s long run pace

But did not succeed. He said that with the colder weather it brought their car into a sweetspot. Just confirms they are significantly faster than Merc and Ferrari.

Yesterday the temps were more like Vegas than typical Bahrain