Originally Posted by
bingoman:
“The Mclaren need Pace from somewhere -because i cannot seem winning for the rest of the year and if that carries on i can see Jenseon leaving for a more Competitive car next year
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It's a bit odd the way McLaren lack pace at the moment.
When Coulthard did the commentary on the lap it was all "Well, that's not too bad"...."Oh, that's fairly tidy"....."That's okay" etc.
About the only place where the car looked noticeably poor was in the final chicane.
Soooo, that being the case, it's a bit worrying that they lost over a second in the first 2 sectors without any really noticeable shortfall in performance.
I honestly think there's more to their problems than their "new direction" to design.
It seems like the whole car has been designed to be rather "calm" and "safe" in it's handling and as a result of that it doesn't seem like there's much performance to be extracted from it, even if the driver is pushing hard.
And, I gotta say, it seems like that kind of handling has Button's fingerprints all over it.
I think Button has a gift for taking an unruly car and taming it with his smooth driving style but I worry that, perhaps, building a car that he actually
approves of might yield a rather tame car.