Is McLaren wasting F1's best car?

[John S]

For me Edd Straw doesn't really make a total case.
Macca have undoubtedly tripped themselves up several times though.

[Jericoke]

Winning in F1 is a skill.  Things are easy if you have an absolutely dominant monster of a car, but Ferrari, RBR and Mercedes all showed great strategy and team management during their dominant runs as well.  They managed to qualify well when they absolutely had to, and more than a few times they pulled off perfect pitstops, tire strategies and (when they still refueled) fuel strategies.  Until you've been in a position to make those high pressure calls, it's hard to learn how to make the high pressure calls.

McLaren is learning the hard way, so as long as they 'learn', I don't know that it's 'wasting'.

[lkjohnson1950]

Here's another old saying: Hindsight is 20-20. Easy to analyse where Macca went wrong after the fact, harder to get it right in the moment.