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[Darth-Piekus]

They are. Mclaren only brought one big upgrade package on Miami. The rest had two of them. Its natural that they could be in front. Our drivers did the best the car allowed them too.

[Mansell89]

We aren’t far away. I can’t help but think looking at our car we’ve got a pretty compliant, strong concept and if they’ve validated the front wing as they hoped, we can should have some good development in pipeline to come.

What’s great to see is how close it was between the front 4 teams for the vast majority of the session.

Gutted to not be second row but congratulations to Merc, Ferrari and Max.

[Darth-Piekus]

Food for thought. Ive been watching a live timing on replay. On that last try Leclerc had a 16.485 and a 46.155 on the first two sectors. Russell had a 16.477 and a 46.044. At most he had one tenth over Leclerc. How did he lifted and able to be more than 2 tenths in front? I don't believe he did and to me it looks like they covered it under the rug to give the championship title some drama considering Antonelli is 4th.

[Seerix]

Food for thought. Ive been watching a live timing on replay. Leclerc had a 16.485 and a 46.155 on the first two sectors. Russell had a 16.477 and a 46.044. At most he had one tenth over Leclerc. How did he lifted and able to be more than 2 tenths in front?

He did it by going fast while also lifting. Food for thought, why don't you check race thread, Merc thread or anywhere online for details about Russel lifting instead of posting about it in this unrelated thread?

[FittingMechanics]

Often times gaps baloon in S3 because a better car keeps their tires in play and gains the advantage at the end of the lap.

Russell clearly lifted and has 2 tenths on everyone. It was their pole.

[Darth-Piekus]

What a huge advantage that might have been without lifting.

[Seerix]

I did not really check data, but it seemed McL cars were kinda on pace in S1/S2 but dropped almost 0.2s in 3rd sector. I noticed that quite a lot in quali and FP3 as well (not sure if it applied for final attempts as well). Perhaps it was the tyres overheating towards the end of the lap.

[Darth-Piekus]

They lost a lot of time also on the last two turns. Norris was 0.004 slower than Leclerc's time on S2 but he lost more than a tenth on S3.

[Watto]

They were talking on Sky they wonder if McLaren are having correlation issues and why they abandoned the Macarena wing.

[FittingMechanics]

They were talking on Sky they wonder if McLaren are having correlation issues and why they abandoned the Macarena wing.

I thought they had hydraulic issues and had to drop the wing test. Is the wing hydraulically actuated?

It wasn't run for a second so it's not correlation.

[Avocado]

They were talking on Sky they wonder if McLaren are having correlation issues and why they abandoned the Macarena wing.

They didn't have enough time for proper testing, that's all.

[Watto]

They were talking on Sky they wonder if McLaren are having correlation issues and why they abandoned the Macarena wing.

I thought they had hydraulic issues and had to drop the wing test. Is the wing hydraulically actuated?

It wasn't run for a second so it's not correlation.

Its been postponed until after Silverstone

McLaren have said from what I read that it didn't work as planned when they fitted it on the car so they abandoned it. I am sure I heard them talk about it on Sky (I might have been hearing things) they saw it rotate in the garage but didn't seem Tod it on track

"I don't want to go into technical detail on it, but we realised once we actuated it that actually it wasn't doing what we needed it to, and therefore it was best not to spend time trying to make it work in that first session. It was important for us to try and get running on the car that we wanted to run for the rest of the weekend, because the intention was only to run it for a very, very short period of time anyway.
"Actually, we were best to focus on the car and this weekend rather than development work, and we'll bring that wing back when we've learnt a little bit more and are comfortable with the design."

https://motorsport.com/f1/news/why-mcla ... /10833619/

[Watto]

Just had a quick check of the replay

They mentioned the new front wing they had in Canada that hasn't been since.

The flip rear wing in testing here.

[CjC]

Just had a quick check of the replay

They mentioned the new front wing they had in Canada that hasn't been since.

The flip rear wing in testing here.

Sorry I’m struggling to follow.
I thought- almost certainly thought that they ran the new front wing in Barcelona?

[Watto]

Just had a quick check of the replay

They mentioned the new front wing they had in Canada that hasn't been since.

The flip rear wing in testing here.

Sorry I’m struggling to follow.
I thought- almost certainly thought that they ran the new front wing in Barcelona?

I'll go through the replay again sometime they mentioned the from wing from Canada so I might have misheard the not seen since. Or they were wrong . I had it playing in the background a the time and wasn't paying a ton of attention just that caught my attention they didn't know if all they updates worked as planned.