Autosport 75: McLaren Test which persuads army to live

The faces said all this. The temperature was colder and a small group was modest McLaren Shortly before lunch, the team members were rotated around the timing desk at Pitwall.

Every time the car shone in the past, Mechanics Arton’s Italian engineer, Georgio Eschelie’s face, looked to taste the reaction on the face, which looks like a junior pavaroti. Each time he used to force his eyes wide and smiling before giving instructions to the pit’s signal to put new figures on the pitboard.

The army did not run a Formula 1 car for three months and yet it was determining the fastest time of winter. He re -spent the speed on Wednesday throughout the day, even one or two times as spinning, he discovered the boundaries of the new car.

At lunch on Thursday, the new McLaren-Ford Mp4/8 is all doubted about the competition because the army has placed the hammer down: 1m21.2s, 1m21.0s, 1m20.4s, 1m20.3s. It was a breathtaking performance of frequent speed.

To keep Senna’s achievement in perspective, Damon Hill had set WilliamsThe fastest time of winter a day on 1m21.0s, while McLaren boys, Michael Andreti and Micah HakkinanTwo weeks after testing all the new package was managed 1m21.5s and 1m21.7s respectively.

At the end of the day, Andreti improved 1M21.1s as the army pops popped in another mind-making sequence: 1m21.0s, 1m20.5s, 1m20.2s.

It has been a difficult winter for McLaren. Who would supply engines this year and uncertainty on the car driving this year reduced the morale of a dedicated crew, used for success. Last Thursday, he discovered his faith again.

As he packed the mountains of electronic devices prepared for South Africa, they were all considering the great question – would Senna include him for the first race in Kayalami.

Senna looked comfortable but was tired as she spoke after the test. It was a difficult two days, he said, but he was satisfied. “The car is of course very fast,” he said with a classic understanding.

Carefully rubbing his eye, he continued: “Silverstone, in my opinion, is one of the most difficult circuits to install a car and to find a good balance between Infield and high-speed corners such as stoves, bridges and bakeds.

“My goal is coming here, in fact there was a second step on a positive route towards racing this year. Arton Senna

“I also thought in the last few years, ‘I don’t know how to go fast around this circuit’. But between yesterday and today I got the opportunity to drive at a pace that I could not believe that I could.

“In fact, I think I can go fast, but I cannot coordinate my mind and body to do it. My brain doesn’t react quickly because I need to go fast to go fast. It is very difficult to drive at that speed, because it is very difficult to drive at that speed, because you see incredible G-Force and response time that you see and whatever you do is nothing.

The army was sitting back on its chair, which used to talk in the last two days. A deep thoughtful person, this 32 -year -old man is not given to open his mouth before confusing his brain. And although the track was tired of a difficult day on the track, he had a Twinkle in his eye. He was clearly affected by the speed of the new McLaren and perhaps weighing in his mind how the car could develop in the coming year.

But he was careful not to allow his new enthusiasm to blind his new enthusiasm for the fact that if he wanted to run the car this year, there was still some difficult conversation to be done with Ron Dennis and sponsor Marlborough.

“This is a dangerous situation,” he reflected. “Especially when you have gone away from three months without driving. I am not ready to move on my reflex, so I have to control myself.

“Between the first and second days I took a good step, not only myself, but also the car, we really improved the car. But you know, if you think about something you lose another lap.

“It is difficult to tune your mind or your body. You tell your hands, ‘Okay, change here a little more’ or ‘lift here’, but it is almost too late.

“You think about something and is already too late. So you go with instinct, you guess what is going to happen so that you can do it as it happens. If you wrong then you will be closed. It is not too bad in slow corners because if you misunderstand it, you spin, but it’s very difficult in the fast corner.”

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“I think the performance is there,” the army continued. “Naturally there are still difficulties with reliability. All are small things with electronics that must be understood before adjusted and modified. Still a lot of development is to be done.

“My goal is coming here, in fact there was a second step on a positive route towards racing this year.

Although he refused to accept it, the army clearly felt that he wanted to run this year. But there were other views. Money in conversation between Senna and McLaren is always a sticky point. He has been with the team for five consecutive sessions, won three World Championships and, each time a contract requires renewal, he has a few million pairs of the bill.

In the past, Honda paid, panicked that it could be defective Ferrari Or Renault, but this time there is no Honda. It was on McLaren Boss Ron Dennis and Chief sponsor Marlboro, to decide how much F1 is worth.

But the army was encouraged by their Silverstone Test without doubt. “It was not just a quick laps,” they reflected. “But we did it on several occasions. I am surprised at the huge progress in both myself and in the car in two days. I wonder how far we can go?”

“V8 is a completely different engine. It has a lot of power below the reve range and in the middle, but low at the top end. It also goes around different corners. Throtle control is completely different and a lot of effort has been made for me to learn new characteristics of the engine. We always want more top-and power on a V8 engine.” Arton Senna

The atmosphere in McLaren Garage was reminiscent of good old days a few years ago, when the Army and McLaren were in their Tani Bada. In the final qualifying session for a race, the Brazil will wait patiently for the right moment before running the gun for the pole position. Did he realize the same in Silverstone last week?

“You know that when you are going early,” he replied, thinking. “You know that almost the corner to the corner, and then the last lap time on the pitboard is just one result. As you adopt a sharp adoption, you just know that it is sharp and it is a question of balanced your aggression and your aggression with self-control.

“I find it attractive, trying to find that there is no balance between not being very conservative, but is not doing it much and doing it wrong.

“I am especially fascinated by such a situation at really high speed, which I got today. You go from instinct. You think you feel the time to come and then after 80 seconds or so you get a magic result. It’s a great thing.”

After several sessions with multi-cylinder Honda engines, both V10 and recently V12, how did he enjoy driving McLaren’s new Ford HB V8 engine?

“V8 is a completely different engine,” he said loudly. “It has a lot of power in the lower and middle of the Reve range, but low at the top end. It also goes around different corners. Throttle control is completely different and it has made a lot of effort for me to know the new characteristics of the engine. We always want more top-untouchable power on a V8 engine.”

One of the most attractive things about talking to the Arton army is what his ability to analyze his race means to separate a quick lap or to describe how he motivates himself. Once he starts thinking and talking in this way, you can hear him for hours.

Fortunately, he was only in such mood after returning to an F1 cockpit last week. This is now his life for almost 10 years, can he not actually consider running?

“What I feel with racing is something I cannot explain,” the army said. “This is not something I consider to be necessary but I have experienced it, felt it and it is incredible.

“This year, in January, the passion was really low. It was like a small flame. A friend of mine persuaded me to do this test. He pushed me and slowly the flame became big and big and the passion started coming back and I could see it and feel.

“Sometimes in life you can’t just change those things, no matter how much you want. I think the friend did a really good job in persuading me to come back.

“This is my life till now.

“But the car becomes more and more difficult to drive fast, to find all those things to find the balance and to make all the necessary decisions, whether they are personal or technical. It is the most difficult part of my profession and it has been like this for the last two or three years now.”

“I did not come from Brazil to England and at the end of this week, the zero degree was cool to stand up this week. I have been for 10 days in Europe and it has taken a long time to meet with people and do all. We just have to wait and see” Arton Senna

But certainly the Williams-Renalt drivers turned into a series of laps within the best time, he should feel that he can challenge Ellen Prost and put him under great pressure?

The army gradually thinks for a full 15 seconds before answering: “I have always been transferred with a challenge. If you can see a challenge you have set a long way on the road to fulfill it.

“I did not come from Brazil to England and at the end of this week, the zero degree was cold to stand up this week. I have been for 10 days in Europe and it has taken a lot of time to meet with people and to do it all. We just have to wait and see.”

On Monday, this news filtered through a waiting world that the army would run for McLaren in 1993 – Brazilian has returned.