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John Barnard wrote:You have to change the thinking. I don’t know how long that will take, or whether the team can survive that kind of a fundamental turnaround. Considering that when we joined McLaren in 1980 the problems I had then trying to change the way things were done, we’re talking about a fairly small operation then. If you take those problems to today with the numbers of people there, I wouldn’t relish that job. It’s like turning an oil tanker.
Kate Walker wrote:The Woking racers have painted egg on their own faces by failing to manage expectations. Had McLaren not spent the Honda years talking up their Red Bull-beating chassis (yeah right...) we might have forgiven them for having a bad weekend or six with their new engine partners. But when all the fingers of blame are pointed outside and yet the problems are internal? It's not a good look, and not one that begets any sympathy at all.
Fernando Alonso wrote:A weekend like that, the only problem is the media attention it attracts and the lack of normal conversation goes into the bad news or good news, and everything is exaggerated, especially in Formula One with all the polemics and all the things you need to sell every week. We had a quite poor weekend in terms of performance, uncompetitive on Friday, uncompetitive on Saturday, uncompetitive on Sunday. We are the first ones to know that, and we want to improve that. At the same time, we are not last. We are not getting worse and worse. We are not the worst team in the paddock. We are not these things that we've been hearing for the last three days. We are fifth in the constructors' championship, I'm eighth in the drivers' championship. All the other ones that are doing a perfect season, they are behind us, so maybe they are not so perfect and we are not so bad. We understand we have been uncompetitive, and we are the first ones that we want to improve that.
We had zero points last season, and now we have fifth in the constructors' championship and eighth in the drivers' championship. So again, the situation changed a lot and improved a lot. We are not where we want to be, and we want to improve. We want to fight for podiums, we want to fight for championships. We were thinking this year could be that transition to be close to the podiums and close to the Red Bull performance, and we are not. We realise that, and we accept that we need to improve. If this was the season to improve, yes, it was, and we did improve massively.1900 percent more points than last year, so we are doing what we can.
- Double points finish for Sauber Zak Brown wrote:The performance of the MCL33 in 2018 has not met the expectations of anyone at McLaren, especially our loyal fans. This is not the fault of the hundreds of committed and hard-working men and women at McLaren. With today's announcement, we start to address those issues head on and take the first step on our road to recovery.
Cuhulin wrote:http://www.f1i.com/news/309794-mclaren- ... plans.htmlDo you think Alonso will drive for McLaren, perhaps with Andretti as he did last year, or will he seek a ride with Penske or one of the other IndyCar teams?
Germany's Auto Motor und Sport wrote:McLaren had been investigating the feasibility of running a full IndyCar schedule in 2019 in partnership with another team. McLaren shareholders Mansour Ojjeh and Sheikh Mohammed bin Essa Al Khalifa have put the plan on hold indefinitely as the team centers on stabilizing its F1 affairs.
Max Verstappen wrote:If Verstappen feels that his Red Bull is in a different series than Ferrari and Mercedes, how do Renault, Haas, McLaren, Force India, Toro Rosso and Sauber feel in the mid-field, let alone the laggards at Williams?We were super-slow on the straights... It's just incredibly frustrating... It was tragic. On the straights it's like you are driving in a different series.
{Asked if it was like F1 vs Formula 2}: Yes.
Minttu Raikkonen, to Lewis Hamilton, wrote:If you cry like a girl when you lose, do ballet. #JustSaying
Mercedes engineering director Aldo Costa is to step back and move into a consultancy role from the start of 2019. Performance director Mark Ellis has decided to retire from his current position and will begin a sabbatical next year.
Jacques Villeneuve wrote:The team is dead. You have to admit that you're screwed. I don't know how it can recover. I just don't see it.
FIA International Sporting Code, Appendix L, Chapter 4, Article 4 d) wrote:"Except in cases of force majeure (accepted as such by the stewards), the crossing, in any direction, of the line separating the pit entry and the track by a car entering the pit lane is prohibited."
Nish Shetty, Steve Stringwell and Mika Salo wrote:RHIP. You could be certain that if Bottas or Raikkonen had committed the same infraction, there would have been a penalty.Fact: Car 44 crossed the white line separating the pit entry and the track.
Offence: Breach of Appendix L Chapter IV Article 4 (d) of the FIA International Sporting Code.
Decision: A reprimand.
"It was clear that there was an infringement of the above mentioned rule - the driver clearly crossed the line separating the pit entry from the track." ...HOWEVER...
"In deciding on the penalty for the infringement, we took into account the following mitigating factors..."
Charlie Whiting wrote:It was not the same as an incident in Azerbaijan in 2016, where Kimi Raikkonen was penalised. "Kimi a couple of years ago in Baku got a five-second penalty, you may remember." In the 2017 Spanish GP, Pascal Wehrlein earned a five-second penalty for missing the bollard after a late call to stop. Felipe Massa received a drive-through in his final race for Ferrari in Brazil in 2013 for crossing the entry line when he made a stop in the race, while in another scenario Sergio Perez also received a drive through in the 2012 Monaco GP.
Sean Bratches wrote:These are complicated negotiations. Whilst our preference would have been to race in Miami in 2019, there was always a point by which delivering the best possible wheel-to-wheel racing experience for our fans, drivers and teams wouldn't be possible in the time available. We have now reached that point as far as racing in Miami in 2019 is concerned. However, we are taking a long-term view and as a result, we have decided, in consultation with the Miami authorities, to postpone sign-off until later in the summer, with the aim of running the first Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix in the 2020 season.
JustAnEngineer wrote:Jacques Villeneuve does not like Claire Williams.
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/vill ... 59333/?s=1
http://www.f1i.com/news/310722-villeneu ... harge.htmlJacques Villeneuve wrote:The team is dead. You have to admit that you're screwed. I don't know how it can recover. I just don't see it.
Claire Williams wrote:Williams has been criticized for signing two inexperienced drivers who bring money to the team, but Claire Williams said she had no regrets about choosing Lance Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin. "Put Lewis Hamilton in our car, and I'm not sure he could have made a huge amount of difference. I feel sorry for Lance and Sergey. The car just doesn't have the performance. Lance and Sergey are young but.... They have had an enormous amount of criticism leveled at them, and that is somewhat unfair. I don't think any driver could have made that much difference to our performance."
Williams' claim was questioned by BBC F1 analyst Jolyon Palmer. The former Renault driver, who was on the grid last year, pointed out that Stroll was 0.8 secs on average slower in qualifying than former team-mate Felipe Massa in the second half of last season, and that the Brazilian was not as fast as four-time world champion Hamilton. Williams have the slowest car this year on average qualifying pace, 0.4 secs behind Sauber, 0.5 secs off Toro Rosso and 0.7 secs off McLaren. The McLaren's benchmark lap times are set by double world champion Fernando Alonso, who is regarded by many as on a similar level to Hamilton.
