McLaren-Where to now,staff changes???

[Peter Mallett]

Pah, complete failures! Only second?

[mstar]

mclaren will for surwe run ligther next round, they are to far down the grid and get trapped between slower people. They need to run a little lighter and then fight with the podiam positions

[rocketracer]

montoya 3rd (um, thats a podium), fuel load and strategy worked perfectly. he didnt have the pace to fight the top 2.

kimi, made a mistake in quali and therefore it wasnt his fuel, but his own error which put him in the pack. had he not made the mistake he would have quali'd near alonso in 5th, and who knows whether he had the pace to run with the front 2 (its possible in race conditions that he may have pulled out a special drive...

Mclaren fuel and strategy werent the weak points at imola race. Mclaren for my mind, picked their optimum strategy, and had a satisfactory result... better to be heavy so if you get stuck behind others that you "still have the legs to stretch em" once the others pit, cos sure as 'ell aint gonna be no passing on that track no matter how much pace...

[Marbot]

Most of the teams have realised that one man isn't going to make all the difference.Maybe in years gone by when the regs were more open,but not any more.These days everyone has to pull together to find that elusive half second or so.Gascoyne,Newey,Willis or whoever aren't going to suddenly come up with something that gives their team a 2 second advantage.

[rocketracer]

The state of affairs at Mclaren after imola:

http://www.crash.net/news_View~t~Den...~id~129081.htm

the interesting part of the article with regards to this thread:
"Dennis added that his team was not caught out by ending qualifying in lower positions than expected, despite the fact that Montoya and Raikkonen started only seventh and eighth, and then spent much of the race in traffic.

"I don't think we got caught out," he insisted, "Juan Pablo did the lap time which was appropriate for his fuel load, and Kimi should have been three- or four-tenths quicker - and was capable of it. That would have put him on the second row, and I think it would have been a very different race [from there]."

Renault won the championship last year because they eliminated the risks they had to take (and also helped they had a quick car - but not the quickest), and so i think Mclaren are taking heed of this.

Im going to go against the tide and say that Mclaren will win both chamionships by seasons end, as Montoya looks like he'll be much more of a force this year, especially when compared to fisi (but hopefully not too much that he takes too many points from kimi!)...

[Marbot]

Things get worse in the personnel department.http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns16718.html

[avsfan733]

what they need is stability. Just work to keep those who are there before you start bringing in a celebrity. They spent a lot mroe money because they do more than just racing. the whole new factory etc.