What the Hell Were McLAREN Doing......?

[SennaMan]

What a total c***up - jenson should sue the bastards 



“Jenson’s afternoon was very disappointing one for him, through no fault of his own. Human error caused a cooling cover to be left off the left-hand radiator on the lap to the grid – and, despite our best efforts to recover the situation, the components underneath the car got too hot, and Jenson was forced to switch the engine off when a small fire developed.” MARTIN WHITMARSH


“That was extremely disappointing. I knew after the formation lap that there was a cooling cover left on the left-hand sidepod, where the radiator is.

“We thought everything was going to be okay, and it would probably have been fine if we hadn’t had a Safety Car. My car quickly began to overheat and I started losing engine power, so I turned the engine off pretty sharply because the last thing I wanted was to leave engine oil on the racing line.

“Today was just one of those days. It was human error, a mistake, and that’s all there is to it. I’m still only eight points behind the lead of the drivers’ championship and we head to Turkey feeling confident that we’ll be more competitive there.” Jenson BUTTON

[cosworth151]

Anything that has to be removed from an aircraft before flight has a large, red streamer attached to it. The streamer reads,, "REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT." That way, we can easily spot anything that has been missed when we do our pre-flight walk around. Sounds like McLaren should order some.

[greener_09]

I cant believe this happened.This is supposed to be a proffesional team with the best staff money can buy and something like this happens.Jenson seemed to take it quite well (probably didnt want to upset his new team) but he must have been fuming.my guess is that someone will be looking for a new job tomorrow.

[SennaMan]

Anything that has to be removed from an aircraft before flight has a large, red streamer attached to it. The streamer reads,, "REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT." That way, we can easily spot anything that has been missed when we do our pre-flight walk around. Sounds like McLaren should order some.

simple and brilliant idea cossie - yeah McLAREN should order some supplies, very fast....

[cosworth151]

They're useful in many ways.

[Canada Darrell™]

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Mclaren leave someone on the jackstands about 10 or 9 or 8 years ago on the grid?

[Canada Darrell™]

I was wrong..2001 Spa...Ralf Shumi left on jack stands with Williams. heh 

[Dare]

I was wrong..2001 Spa...Ralf Shumi left on jack stands with Williams. heh 

Wonder they hadn't left him on them.Actually when
Ralf drove for Williams I didn't think he was that bad.

[Scott]

Stunning - I'm sure Ron was screaming into the phone (or was he there??)!  Sorry for Jenson, but exactly who would tell him it is 'ok'??  Aren't those ducts for something??  If one time slowing down for a safety car (something that...cough...rarely happens at Monaco) causes overheating, I'd say things weren't 'ok'.    

Why didn't they just pull him in at the end of that parade lap, yank the thing out and send him on his way to follow Alonso up through the field??  Better than a 4 lap race.  My guess is the sponsors would agree.

[Williamsfan]

When McLaren get things wrong, it is usually spectacular.  I feel a lot for JB, a disaster for him.  My team and my favourite driver all had disastrous races 

[stealthhaggis]

To be fair, both of your boys (Nico & Rubens) did entertain the crowd and viewing public with some impressive shunts.

As for McLaren, well it could've been worse, Lewis' car could've driven over his pussycat whilst she was enjoying a nap under the bonnet..

[Scott]

I think you mean Ruby and the Hulk...

I'm still waiting to hear what happened to that steering wheel of Rubens that was run over. 
 

[Scott]

I figured it out...Rubens claims the steering wheel was the problem - so what better way to ensure you get a new one next race than toss it out on the racing line so it gets run over.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/83669

[stealthhaggis]

Also there is now no evidence to discredit Rubens, very clever by the old fella!

[John S]

 
Why didn't they just pull him in at the end of that parade lap, yank the thing out and send him on his way to follow Alonso up through the field??  Better than a 4 lap race.  My guess is the sponsors would agree.

I agree Scott, once the safety car came out they should have called him in, they could have changed the tyres as well to limit the drop to the back like Alonso did. 

However they got the call to bring Lewis in, to cover off Alonso's charge, spot on. Brawn at Merc must have been having a nap, cos Alonso sure caught them dozing.