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Old Mar 9, 2011 | 12:38 PM
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McLaren Car Is "A Mess"

 
Old Mar 9, 2011 | 12:48 PM
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How much blame should be put on Whitmarsh?
 
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Read this earlier. From what I've heard it's over a week old, so who knows if they've done some improvements or not.
 
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Not much you can do to fix "fundamental issues" is a week Sean.
 
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Sand bagging IMO
 
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Sand bagging IMO
Seriously doubt it.
 
Old Mar 9, 2011 | 12:51 PM
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Sand bagging IMO
That's what we said in 2009 and 2010 and it ended up not being so.

I think that they are legitimately having issues.

They tried to do "too much" with the car.
 
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That's what we said in 2009 and 2010 and it ended up not being so.

I think that they are legitimately having issues.

They tried to do "too much" with the car.
Consider, also, that both drivers seem to have very different styles. Trying to build a stiff/loose car for Hammy and an understeerer for Jense (for example) may have pulled the design in too many different directions.
 
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Alternating designers every year just for the sake of change is stupid.
 



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