Martin Whitmarsh: McLaren will do better in Silverstone but will not have quickest car – Formula 1
McLaren’s team boss Martin Whitmarsh has stated that the team will do better in the Silverstone Grand Prix of the 2011 Formula 1 season.
He added that although the team will not come up with the fastest car in Silverstone yet the performance will be up.
Whitmarsh also added that the previous few races were very good for McLaren because the team had the fastest car on the grid. However, he said in the European Grand Prix, the car was not where it should have been.
Whitmarsh stated, “I am an optimist. We plan to go to Silverstone with some new things; we will have new parts and possibly a new rear wing - various bits and pieces. Silverstone is very different to here. Anyone who stands here and say I am sure we will
be back with the quickest race car would be rather foolish, but we will see how we get on.”
Summing up McLaren’s performance in the Valencia race, Whitmarsh stated, “There has never been a car that has had enough power and enough downforce, we were not exploiting the tyres correctly; we were struggling with traction.”
These comments from Whitmarsh come in light of the recent words from McLaren’s driver Lewis Hamilton in which he said that the 2011 season is over for the McLaren team. The Brit stated that Red Bull are too far up in the lead and McLaren have not come up
with something exceptional to compete with the Milton Keynes-based team.
McLaren were well off the pace in Valencia from the Red Bull team and also from Ferrari. Both Hamilton and Jenson Button were out of the podium fight early in the race and were stranded in fourth and sixth places respectively.
Nevertheless, McLaren are still second in the constructors’ title, 89 points adrift of the Red Bull team. Still 11 races are to be contested and McLaren will have their chances against all odds.
Let’s see how well they fare in the British Grand Prix, set to take place on July 10, 2011.
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