When? McLaren Team principal Andrea Stella said loudly Max Verustapane After qualifying for a title contender Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, his comments raised some eyebrows.
“A firm yes. Can you write it to Capital (letters)? First, he is the Max Verustapane -class champion for the last four years. In a sharp car.
“There are races where McLaren cannot enjoy any benefit from the competition point of view. And Lando (Noris) and Oscar (Piastry) can take a few points away from each other.”
At that time Verustapane was hitting the piastry with 94 points. But after a huge weekend for Australians, which has now moved to 69 with the remaining 69 to 69. Still a long shot, but Stella’s comments now have a little more weight.
McLaren on the surface should not be very worried. Its car speed has not disappeared suddenly, but it has faced two circuits in Monza and Baku that did not play for the strength of the car. Las Vegas will be one and one, but elsewhere there will be in the McLaren mixture.
At the same time, the jury is still out of how the “rebirth” of the real red bull, as Helmut Marco said, is actually. Monza and Baku formed the RB21, and the next round in Singapore will be the largest test yet.
“If you asked me what is the toughest weekend, I would have said that it could be Baku or Vegas,” Stela explained.
“We are well aware that our car is very competitive in long, medium-level corners, out of which we have no one in Baku, similarly in Vegas. The car is not particularly effective in braking, especially directly, of which you have a lot.”
Next week’s Singapore GP is expected to return to the form for McLaren, which dominated the 2024 race with Lando Noris.
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Aero characteristics of MCL39 with the fact that McLaren has been the most kind car on its back tires, which is a property pronounced by warm conditions. It should be placed in a good place on high demand circuits in hot climate. Singapore is one, as Qatar.
Stela said, “If there is a high decline, we can be more competitive. With a low decline, we have not necessarily seen in Monza, not necessarily the best race car,” Stela said, while warning the red bull’s upturn, only the track is not specific.
“We have already seen in Monza that they have improved, because the way he won Monza was something else in our assessment, just compared to a car that adapters well on a low drag. They can give faster, medium speed and low speed corners rapid, faster, and we know that Max, when they have a competing weekend, when they have a competitive weekend.
“We will now see in Singapore, which should be more than one in which we should perform well. Hopefully we can go back to fight for victory, and then we will see how the rest of the championship will come out. But definitely Max is in controversy. We knew it, and we got confirmation.”
To rally soldiers to avoid decency?
But if there is no reason for McLaren to panic after an off-kilter Grand Prix, and otherwise there is a rare error-fragmented weekend for metronomic piastry, then why is the stella so much that Varrstapain is such a big danger?
Is he already looking for excuses if his driver cannot close it? This is a theory, but this is unlikely. Not only this is not their style – such as every team boss Steelle protects her drivers, but not in dissatisfied fashion – but still a lot of confidence can do piastry or noris and will shut it down, it still stands as an outsider with Vastapane.
Italian’s comments can also be seen as a way of pre-e-ghali and a way to avoid any decency, which can be with McLaren, with just 13 digits in Singapore to maintain the title of a prominent manufacturers, it can be attracted to just reduce small pressure.
But after retirement for both drivers in the recent race, and in a particularly messy weekend practice in Baku, with a credibility issue for piastry and another IFFY Pitstop in favor of Noris, it has become clear that a resurrection varastopain – Red Bull Combo is no longer in a position to put sufficient pressure, nor Piastis Noris does not include too much pressure Is.
Oscar Piastry, McLaren, Andrea Stella, McLaren
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Through his comments in the media, Stella has also indirectly ralled both on the track and at home on the track in Wroking. The title of a first papaya drivers since 2008 is not yet a pioneer, so squads cannot overcome their legs from throttle. Obviously, it is also a responsibility for both of their drivers to allow them to protect their opportunities according to their ability, with Noris now leaming the piastry with 25 points.
“When you run at the top of Formula 1, the competition is very tight, just you can’t bear the errors because your contenders will be ready to take advantage,” he warned.
“Keeping in mind the championship of drivers, the margin is definitely further reduced to error, but it is always elastic when you run in Formula 1. Hopefully at the end of this week, some unhutiny and issues have accumulated, because not only did we have a fast enough car, but we also had some credibility issues, which are far away for some time.
The best way to react is with a vigorous and clean performance in Singapore, one of the team’s favorite circuits, where Noris defeated Verustapen by 21 seconds last year.
To wrap the title of its consecutive construents, but to stabilize the position of the drivers’ championships and remove the Verustapane return story that has started sprouting.
