Busy day for McLaren with new FW6 wing - F1technical.net
The Vodafone McLaren Mercedes F1 Team had a very busy day at the Marina Bay Street Circuit, venue of the Singapore Grand Prix. The team put a lot of time in testing the new FW6 wing, tyre comparison and trying to solve the oversteer problems.
Martin Whitmarsh, Team principal, Vodafone McLaren Mercedes: “Like most street circuits, the track surface is invariably not in great shape on the opening day of practice – and today was no exception. The heavy traffic and red flag stoppages in each session didn’t help our progress through the day.
“We spent the majority of the second session comparing tyres and studying the effects of fuel-load and tyre degradation. We also need to look closely at the results of our back-to-back tests with the new FW6 wing. While we don’t appear to be the only team suffering from oversteer issues today, it certainly looks like the cars setting the benchmark here are the Brawns and the Red Bulls. It will be interesting to see where everyone stands tomorrow after a night of studying the data and making improvements.”
Norbert Haug, Vice-president, Mercedes-Benz Motorsport: “What a great atmosphere here at this special event in Singapore.This was absolutely impressive at the inaugural practice session last year – and it still is. We worked to our planned programme and I think Lewis, Heikki and the team have found quite a decent baseline. But it will be very tight again tomorrow, today, Jenson Button in fifth was separated from Lewis in ninth by less than half a tenth of a second.”
Busy day for McLaren with new FW6 wing - F1technical.net
Martin Whitmarsh, Team principal, Vodafone McLaren Mercedes: “Like most street circuits, the track surface is invariably not in great shape on the opening day of practice – and today was no exception. The heavy traffic and red flag stoppages in each session didn’t help our progress through the day.
“We spent the majority of the second session comparing tyres and studying the effects of fuel-load and tyre degradation. We also need to look closely at the results of our back-to-back tests with the new FW6 wing. While we don’t appear to be the only team suffering from oversteer issues today, it certainly looks like the cars setting the benchmark here are the Brawns and the Red Bulls. It will be interesting to see where everyone stands tomorrow after a night of studying the data and making improvements.”
Norbert Haug, Vice-president, Mercedes-Benz Motorsport: “What a great atmosphere here at this special event in Singapore.This was absolutely impressive at the inaugural practice session last year – and it still is. We worked to our planned programme and I think Lewis, Heikki and the team have found quite a decent baseline. But it will be very tight again tomorrow, today, Jenson Button in fifth was separated from Lewis in ninth by less than half a tenth of a second.”
Busy day for McLaren with new FW6 wing - F1technical.net
