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Key explained that McLaren would run both of its drivers with a similar specification to what Norris raced with at the Nurburgring to begin with at Portimao.
"It's a slight hybrid from what we have," Key said.
"We have the Lando spec of car, effectively, from the Nurburgring to start with here. That incorporates a new nose. I know it's homologated, but actually it's working absolutely fine and just as we expected, so that part is very much current-spec now, we're happy with that.
"We've got some additional updates to bring this weekend as well. We're going to be testing those today. At least one of those could remain on the car for the rest of the weekend.
"And then with the parts we have at the Nurburgring which we didn't get to test, we're going to be doing exactly what we wanted to do then here.
"We're going to introduce the parts bit by bit, and review them and understand them in their own right as we go and seal that up as a package."
So far decent in FP1. S1 and S3 to look out for relative to the top end cars. S1 probably engine mode. S3 so far looked weakest.
FP2 might reveal a bit more. Promising start!
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Jesus, that sector 3 is absolutely horrendous considering it's just two real corners. They are slow corners which are the weakness of this car but still, what the hell is going on there. Hopefully it's just down to the program they were running and it gets a little better in the upcoming sessions. Third sector is particularly important for overtaking / defending too so it wouldn't be nice to have a big deficit there.
"We have an unusual start to FP2 with the teams all running a 30-minute Pirelli tyre test. It’s a blind test – so we don’t know which prototype we’re running – with the run plans for each car provided by Pirelli’s engineers."
Incredible lap from Lando on tyres he had to abort his first attempt due to red flag. Things look a lot better than they did a week ago on Friday. Disrupted Friday but decent day nonetheless.
Look to be in a much better place this weekend. Still don't think we've seen the best of Racing Point and Renault yet, but good to see McLaren high on the time sheets again. Was worried they'd ran into a bit of a cul-de-sac with the new package, but seems like it's all working as expected.
I think that's because some teams didn't get a proper lap in on that messy fp2. They are still struggling a bit on that sector 3. I mean look at that, Ferrari ends up as the faster car on average from sector 3 alone. It must be quite some deficit.
