McLaren Looking Forward To Singapore

Under the lights in Singapore next week, Sebastian Vettel could lock up his second world driver championship in a row. But to do so, he will need to overcome hard charging McLaren who seem determined to delay Vettel’s celebration. The combination of DRS use to overtake at the front and his driver’s recent success against Red Bull have prompted McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh to gush about what he foresees being an “electrifying” race.

“We go to Singapore feeling very encouraged about our performance potential,” said Whitmarsh. “I also think we’re set to continue the trend we’ve witnessed so far this season, with DRS enlivening races that hitherto would have been somewhat processional.

AUTOSPORT is reporting that the DRS detection zone will be set after Turn 3, just past the track’s winding first sector. That would put notification in the braking zone of Turn 5 and activation on the exit of the same turn. This will allow DRS use down the long straightaway that approaches turn 7.

Despite Red Bull wins at both Belgium and Italy, McLaren had strong pace and – conceivably – could have won both races. At Spa, Jenson Button overcame a 13th place start to finish on the podium and pulled off a similar feat coming from 7th on the grid to finish 2nd at Monza.