McLaren (Temporada 2011), Porque ahora tenemos un interés especial en el equipo Opciones

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Pedro de la Rosa vuelve a Vodafone McLaren Mercedes


Hola a todos, me permito abrir este topic porque creo que desde ahora todos estaremos más interesados en las noticias y rumores del equipo McLaren.
Supongo que esto no se aplica a gente como KIT, Raquel o tenista, que de por sí ya tienen un gran interés en esta escudería

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http://www.itv.com/formula1/news/2011/3/mc...ralian-gp-9991/

Martin Whitmarsh admits McLaren have taken some risks in making last-minute changes to the MP4-26 including the decision to shelve a more complex exhaust layout in a bid to ensure the team is in more competitive shape for this weekends season-opening Australian Grand Prix.

The McLaren team principal conceded at the end of last week that the team had pushed over the limit in the design of certain aspects of the 2011 car, which had caused the squad an usual amount of reliability problems during pre-season.

The MP4-26 had also not shown itself to have the outright pace of perceived pacesetters Red Bull and Ferrari.

However, speaking in a Vodafone McLaren Mercedes media phone-in on Monday morning, Whitmarsh revealed that the team had already taken some radical steps to improve their fortunes in time for this weekends race changes he is optimistic will give the MP4-26 a performance step forward of a full second.

Im not satisfied where the car was from a reliability or performance [perspective] in the tests, Whitmarsh said.

We have I guess, with some risk, made some fairly dramatic changes to the car and those changes we will see in Australia.

So there is some risk in that, but I think it was the right thing to do and were hopeful that that risk comes off and the car is a lot more competitive in Australia.

He added: I want us to be significantly quicker and I believe weve implemented some changes which are aimed at making the car over a second quicker than it was in the tests.

Whitmarsh explained that the major changes were a completely new floor and the decision to go back to a more standard exhaust layout after deciding that the more intricate original one on the MP4-26 was causing too many problems.

Id say it is a simpler design than we had before, he explained.

Exhaust systems have become quite a lot more extreme on quite a lot of the cars. I think we in particular had a very extreme solution, but I think that they were not delivering, in my opinion, sufficient benefit for their complexity.

Whitmarsh, who also said that McLaren would be heading to Melbourne still aiming to win despite not being the favourites, insisted that the MP4-26 wasnt a fundamentally flawed car, but that simply some of its more creative solutions had not proved their worth in reliability.

He thinks the changes, however, have also unlocked some extra performance.

I think the car fundamentally isnt a bad car. I believe we need to unlock the exhaust-blowing potential and we had some very creative ideas some of which could have worked spectacularly well, Whitmarsh said.

But in order to have worked spectacularly well they had to sufficiently durable to be raceable and frankly some of our solutions werent and thats why we had to go back a little bit.

But I think in doing so we found some interesting performance.

So well see; I think it will still be a challenging weekend but Im hopeful that well put on more than a second on the last time we ran the car.

He admitted that making such major changes having already completed a full pre-season of track work was far from ideal and that he would accept responsibility if the plan backfired.

Thats not youd like to do after a test programme, but I think its the right decision, Whitmarsh added.

If it wasnt then Ill have to put my hand up and say I was wrong.

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He added: I want us to be significantly quicker and I believe weve implemented some changes which are aimed at making the car over a second quicker than it was in the tests.

So well see; I think it will still be a challenging weekend but Im hopeful that well put on more than a second on the last time we ran the car.

Joder ! Con menos de 15 dias de trabajo son capaces de mejorar más de 1 segundo sus tiempos ??