Formula 1 team - McLaren F1 Team [MCL36]

[Slash]

Kaj se dešava sad u ova 3 tjedna? gringo ?

Mislim, jel planiraju kakve upgradeove za Kinu ili samo puštaju druge da igraju catch-up?

[Caldor]

Kaj se dešava sad u ova 3 tjedna? gringo ?

Mislim, jel planiraju kakve upgradeove za Kinu ili samo puštaju druge da igraju catch-up?

Mislim da sam negdje pročitao da će biti noviteta, ali se ne mogu sjetiti gdje...

[Forza]

Evo komentar Hamiltona, koji spominja updateove koji če poboljšat race pace ali nista specifično.

Lewis Hamilton has vowed to push his McLaren engineers to improve the race pace of the British team’s 2012 car.

The 2008 world champion put the MP4-27 on pole position for both the Australian and Malaysian grands prix, but then failed to have winning pace in the all-important races.

"In qualifying we are very quick but we need to be quicker in the race," Briton Hamilton is quoted by the Sun newspaper. "I don’t think we are quick enough."

F1’s next stop is in Shanghai mid next month.

"We will have some upgrades for the car, I hope," said Hamilton. "I will go and push the guys to see if we can get some upgrades to try and squeak ahead in the race."

He admitted to being disappointed after the two races so far this season, when the MP4-27’s qualifying promise did not power him to wins.

"The main thing is I need to pick up my race pace," Hamilton is quoted by PA Sport.

"I spoke to Fernando (Alonso) and Sergio (Perez) after (the race in Malaysia) and they had lots of understeer whereas I had lots of oversteer.

"Maybe I’m setting the car up too aggressively, so I might make some changes for the next two races," he said.

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[sofer]

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[darky]

to je stari video vidiš po gumama
ali pokazuje da smo bolji od ferarija i tvornice piča, di si viudio da oni znaju složiti auto

[Forza]

McLaren 'stuck' on whether to pursue a Mercedes-style DRS system until the rules are clarified


McLaren technical director Paddy Lowe says his team is 'stuck' over whether to pursue a Mercedes-style front wing stalling system until the rules regarding the device are properly clarified.

The 2012 Mercedes features a slot in its rear wing that is exposed by the movement of the DRS flap, and channels the airflow on the front wing in a manner that 'stalls' it for an additional straightline speed boost.

McLaren has stayed out of the row over the system - which looks set to continue into this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix - but Lowe says he is frustrated that the situation remains unclear.

Asked during a Vodafone McLaren Mercedes phone-in whether his team felt Mercedes' device was illegal, Lowe replied: "We don't have a strong view one way or the other. At this point, what we really need to have is clarity. I would say actually it would have been better if we could have had clarity before now. We'll see what events in China bring us in that sense.

"Until we've got clarity, it's difficult for us to make a huge amount of effort in that direction. That's really where we're stuck at the moment."

Lowe said the issue was not whether using the DRS flap movement in this manner was morally correct given that the flap was specifically designed as a mandatory overtaking aid, but whether the wording of the regulations specifically precluded it.

"There's no such thing as the spirit of the rules. It's a term often used, but the rulebook is text that has a meaning - you decide what that means and how you work to it. There's no headline regulation that says 'above all else, you've got to remain within the spirit of what was intended,'" he argued.

"If you look at the system on the Mercedes, you could get into arguments there about whether it's in the spirit of what was intended with DRS. Well, it definitely wasn't. DRS was created as a rear-wing flap, it wasn't anything else.

"The debate around whether or not they can keep that system on the car is not about whether it is in that spirit or not, it's about whether the text of the regulations means they cannot."
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/98691

Technical director Paddy Lowe says McLaren must capitalise on its current advantage


McLaren must capitalise on its current pace advantage while it can, reckons the team's technical director Paddy Lowe, as he admitted that there was a sense of slight frustration that it had 'only' achieved a win and two third places from its front row sweeps in the first two Formula 1 races of 2012.

Although Jenson Button won in Melbourne, with polesitting team-mate Lewis Hamilton taking third, in the damp Malaysian Grand Prix Button failed to score following an incident with HRT's Narain Karthikeyan, and Hamilton did not have the pace to join Fernando Alonso and Sergio Perez's battle for victory.

"I think it was fantastic to get the grid positions that we got in Australia and Malaysia. Very, very pleased with those," said Lowe in a Vodafone McLaren Mercedes teleconference.

"Even though there were no points for it, getting the front row was tremendous for the team and a great illustration of what they'd achieved.

"We do come away from the first two races slightly disappointed that we haven't translated those two qualifying results into more points.

"We have got some good points, but in this championship - which is long and hard - you need to score the points when you've got the performance, because you can't rely on maintaining it throughout the season.

"We're determined to go to China and not only get the front row again if we can, but to turn that into a good performance on Sunday."

Although Lowe reckons McLaren has not really had a chance to show its true race pace yet this season, he acknowledged that it may well have a greater advantage in qualifying.

"It's very difficult, I think, to conclude anything from the Malaysian race itself. That was dominated by tyre condition and particularly tyre temperature," he said.

"I think we'd look to Australia for a better reference for our race pace. We were a bit challenged for fuel consumption in that race and it wasn't a particularly clean race.

"It does look as though we have a greater advantage in qualiying that the race, and that is something we need to work on. It's a characteristic that we had in reverse with Red Bull last year, where we felt that they were very strong in qualifying and got good grid positions, but actually in race pace they weren't particularly better than us, they just had track position."

Lowe added that McLaren was bringing a substantial upgrade package to China for round three of the title chase.

"We have quite a few upgrades for this event, on pretty much all sectors of the car," he said. "We're hoping for a reasonable step in performance, however we expect that will only be what we need to do to stay where we are in terms of qualifying and race pace.

"I'd be surprised if our principal competitors aren't also coming with reasonable steps forward, that's the name of the game. We're into the relentless battle of in-season development, particularly between the top teams. That's started already and we'll have to play our part and see if we can maintain the qualifying lead we have."
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/98692

[nando fan]

Mislim da Mclaren uzima titulu ove godine-Hamilton.

[Forza]

Testirali su novo dno bolida, monkey seat i novo prednje krilo na bolidu LH.
mp4/27 aero rig - testing new floor

[Kenny]

Jel taj monkey seat iznad beam winga ili nešto drugo?

[Toon]

Jel taj monkey seat iznad beam winga ili nešto drugo?

iznad...vjerojatno će dobiti nešo downforcea no mislim da se tako i povečava otpor...tko će ga znati što se tu kemija jer vjerojatno ga "ukalupljuju2 u cijeli bolid...Bitno da se radi

[King iCool]

NICE!

[dady16]

Netko od Mclarenova dva vozača će biti svjetski prvak,to je očito.
Drže konstantu a Hamilton je imao poprilično pehova i opet je prvi u prvenstvu.
Znam da je još rano ali baš se Mclaren pokazao kroz godine kao tim koji najbolje razvija bolid tijekom sezone,uvijek donose nešto novo.
Tako da mislim kako će ih protivnici teško dostići.

[Dani]

Ali zato boks uvijek zasere jednog vozača po utrci.

[dmarijon]

Slažem se. Bilo bi čudo i pravo iznenađenje da itko stigne nekog iz mclarenovog dvojca do kraja sezone. Sve im je kako treba.

[Mika_bar]

NICE!

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E da tako bude nakon Brazila!

[McLewis]

NICE!

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E da tako bude nakon Brazila!

točno ovim poretkom, nitko sretniji od mene

[Dani]

Prekinimo prvenstvo zbog Bahreina.

[McLewis]

Prekinimo prvenstvo zbog Bahreina.

hahahahahah, prvi prak bez pobjede hahahah

[Dani]

I bilo bi mi drago zbog onih zanovijetala kaj se bune zbog njegove agresivnosti i želje za pobjedom. Kao najvažnije je sakupljati bodove. Je, ali i pobijediti koji puta. Uostalom pokojni Richard Burns je osvojio svoj jedini naslov na taj način.

[darky]

eh kako ljeto dolazi baš bi mi dobro došla ova McLaren igračka
http://www.luxurylaunches.com/transport ... bikers.php

[Igor18]

dođe ko solidan rabljeni automobil

[zizi]

eh kako ljeto dolazi baš bi mi dobro došla ova McLaren igračka
http://www.luxurylaunches.com/transport ... bikers.php

pogledajte sjedalicu. prostata mi se povećala od samog gledanja u to ergonomsko čudo

[gringo73]

Ni Button ni Hamilton neće voziti na testiranju u Mugellu. Paffet i Turvey će odradit sva 4 dana, a to im je i zadaća - biti test vozači.

[Toon]

Ni Button ni Hamilton neće voziti na testiranju u Mugellu. Paffet i Turvey će odradit sva 4 dana, a to im je i zadaća - biti test vozači.

...pa normalno, tako to rade prave velike momčadi...nismo mi nekakvi pikzibneri pa da šaljemo velike dečke za takve prljave podcjenjivačke poslove...

[Ferrari4ever]

ajme koji " zreli " komentar ...bez obzira na sve mislim da imaju bolji bolid nego što rezultati pokazuju , kao da vozači ne daju 100 % ...možda ona vječna priča tko je 1. a tko 2. vozač kod McL je teško jer obojica su na istom nivou ...meni osobno draži Buttonov stil