McLaren holds meeting to find reasons behind dismal showing at 2012 British GP – Formula 1 news
McLaren is in a quagmire of sorts after the recently concluded British Grand Prix.
The Woking based team held a meeting on Tuesday in order to arrest the slide of their side. McLaren has scored a total of 54 points in the last six races out of those points 25 were from the Canadian Grand prix win of Lewis Hamilton.
Officially, the meeting was a technical briefing over the lacklustre performances of both Hamilton and Button at Silverstone. Hamilton finished 8th while Button finished 10th in the race.
Button did well to move up from 18th place start and finish at 10th while Hamilton started from 8th and remained at 8th although Hamilton at one point of the race was giving Fernando Alonso a challenge for the top spot. Hamilton’s tyres were in better condition
than Alonso when he was battling it out with the Spaniard yet the McLaren started to fall and finished with a below par performance.
A few races ago McLaren was being considered the top team for the season and with the strongest car but their drastic fall from grace the reason for concern for the team.
It is clear that the MP4-27 is going to need some tweaking to match up to the leaders of the grid.
“We don't have the pace of the top three teams,” Button said. “We were perfect in strategy, the pitstops were perfect and nothing went wrong. But if the Williams and Sauber had good days, they would have beaten us, so we have a lot of work to do.”
“You see a car come past like you are standing still and it comes as a surprise. You think, how good does their car feel? They must be on rails. I don't know where we are missing out or where so many teams are getting it right. We are just not quick enough,”
he added.
It will be interesting to see how the team performs in the upcoming German Grand Prix. The team will definitely be looking to at least have both of the drivers finish in the top five positions.
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