Bojan Vrbnjak
The main focus McLaren for the season 2021 is, of course, an exchange motor partner, because the team from Woking will perform with Mercedes drive units. After good progress with the race car MCL35 last season by McLaren concluded on third place design championship, they hope to make the transition to Mercedes engines meant a further step forward.
Besides, he wants to McLaren on your race car above all to improve two key areas. "I think, as far as the weak points are concerned, we need to improve in the low-speed area,”Says the technical chief James key. "And then, under certain conditions, the car is not as good as you would like. This is the case with some weather conditions or poor grip conditions, which can be seen in the obtained data. We need to understand this, but it cannot be fixed overnight. This is what we are actually aiming for. I think if we want to eliminate that, we will have a more constant race car. ” They were last year Carlos Sainz in Lando Norris suffered mainly in gusts of wind as she MCL35 showed as vulnerable if the wind suddenly changed direction. But this problem with simulations is not easy to get to the bottom of. “That was a small problem for us,”He explained Key.
But for that, they were able to develop a certain understanding, what they need to focus on in order to adapt characteristics race car MCL35M season 2021, with this technical chief emphasizing: “There is no prescription for a patent for all of these things. You just have to work on it. However, there is one element that is probably slightly more affected by this than the other, both positively and negatively, depending on the wind direction. Of course, every race car suffers from this. This was also confirmed by last year’s feedback from Sainz and Norris. Our racers said they saw the race cars in front of them blocking and they also have their problems when it’s windy. So I think everyone is struggling with that.”Pri McLarn this was most noticeable if the wind blew in wrong direction or influenced in some way a certain turn. "At the time, it had the worst effect on us,He added Key.
