The 2025 F1 McLaren is sharp – so why does Vastapane keep beating it on the sticks?

As there was any doubt, 1-2 winning 1-2 win in Miami Grand Prix of Formula 1 of Formula 1 confirmed that the papaya team remains well on the top in racing, especially when the rear tire wear is important. But why is it Max Verustapane Regular beating Lando Noris And Oscar piastry Also to poll?

Piastry led Noris to Noris for her third consecutive win, and this season so far, the fifth of McLaren, with McLaren, with Mercedes’ George Russell In the third, 37 seconds behind and Vestapen shipped 40 seconds. Sunday’s result underlines when wearing rear tires and overheating is a big problem, McLaren In fact, you can flex your muscles and drive away from competition once the Pirelli’s rubber is degraded.

It is no coincidence that a race was managed to win Verustapen, Suzuka’s Japanese Grand Prix, which was a ‘easy’ one-stop race in which four-time world champions were able to defend the position of their pole on a circuit, where it was almost impossible to overtake, and McLaren did not use some strategic options.

But when McLaren is unmatched in the race trim, it is not quite prominent in qualifying. Vastapane finds the way with three poles in six grands prixs, then for two piasties and one for Noris. In Miami, Mercedes’ Andrea Kimi Antoneley Prepared to sprint both squads during Ferrari Lewis Hamilton Did this in China. The Suzuka pole of Vestapen was seen as the most impressive of the lot, however, with his Miami’s performance, given that he was also running a Honda engine at a high-mile distance, which spent them to speed up two and three sectors in two and three sectors.

The mercier photo in qualifying has discussed how fast McLaren is actually more than a lap, and some psychological war between the two teams was triggered, which their drivers are playing as their Saturday.

When discussing the third pole of the season of Vestapen, Horner was in a hurry to indicate Dutchman’s merit to get up on the occasion. Horner told Sky on Saturday, “I think like any great player or woman, this is those big pressure moments. This is the last set of tires when the pressure is at its peak.” “Time and again they have distributed, and this is his third pole in six races that are now against expectations.

“McLaren noticed that he had covered us in Q2, but it is about going and doing in the lap – and Max is a master on him. He is deeply digging because we are probably tenth or two down on McLaren on balance.”

By praising the ability of Verustapane to deal with the “moments of big pressure” in an inferior car, the hornaner effectively suggests that the world champion has an edge over its rivals in that department. It is a claim that a lot of observers will agree, especially given the popular story around Noris, but McLaren’s boss Andrea Stella has a different view.

Yes, McLaren MCL39 has a further ability on a lap, but it appears that both of its drivers are firmly struggling to get out of the car. It manifests itself quickly with the well -recorded problems of Noris with the car, which has passed through enough changes compared to 2024 machinery, which they have got much better. But when Piastry has generally faced better, he also missed some poll opportunities, especially in Suzuka and now in Miami also by mistake in turning 1.

It appears that McLaren is quickly powerful under the circumstances, but when pursuing the very edge of the envelope, it seems as if the car’s ‘numb’ front is not giving the necessary information about the necessary information about the necessary information about what is expected. This means that Noris nor the piastry is firmly capable of estimating what the car will do and whether it will shut down its front tires. So they struggle to repeat their performance in some corners.

Stela said, “Now we have enough figures that to confirm that the car simulation is easier to exploit in race simulation compared to a lap in trim and new tires.” “We have not yet have any right lap; perhaps the best Bahrain had an Oscar’s lap. But otherwise, especially when it comes to front-and locking and braking, it is a car that provides its best when you are in constant laps instead of one-hand lap, in which you push 100%.

“Depending on a solid engineering, we are trying to see and make some adjustments whether we can give a car that can give a car that can give a car that is slightly more estimated and rich in information about how to hold on the border.”

This is why Stella argues that her drivers are being beaten for poles with scrapy Q3 laps. McLaren is trying to address it instead of driver performance. So he appeared angry at the line of argument of the red bull that it is always down to the Vastapane that differences.

“Red bulls are very good in making car rapidly, exceptionally good in driving faster cars and they are also very good in making stories for their benefits,” he said that when Autosport puts Horner’s above comments for them. “They take advantage of every possible opportunity to stay in the competition. Some of these opportunities are sometimes to make a story: ‘Oh, we are making miracles here, others should win every practice session and qualifying and race.’

“This is a story created by some of our rivals, which we sometimes read. (But) then we turn on the page and we focus on ourselves. We look at the facts, we see what we should improve. And there are many more in which we should improve.”

It leads to a more philosophical question. Is a car really sharp if it does not allow drivers to exploit that capacity firmly?

“I don’t think we can separate (better) car. Better car (means) performance that you can feel with a car, it’s not full capacity. Sometimes we can actually produce good corners, but it is difficult for our drivers to repeat. Oscar is not a comment after a Q2 lap, I am not doing this that I am not doing this that I am not doing this. I am not doing that I am not doing it.

“This is a car that does not give you too much qling, which is the technical term we used. And it means that it is not easy for our drivers to repeat some large performances that we can see in personal interval. So, what is the better car? What is this car that can be more likely, but it is more difficult?

Perhaps the truth is somewhere in the middle, but as the F1 calendar collides with Europe, it will be attractive to see how the 2025 qualifying battle develops. Both Red Bull and McLaren upgrade are designed, while the FIA’s stricter front wing flex test is expected to shake things in Spain. Can McLaren come up with a machinery that is easy to drive on the border, or will the front wing change papaya cars as is believed by some rivals?

Additional Reporting by Ronald Wording