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Originally Posted by Captain Ahab Jr
Multiple home winner is not a world champion though
Two sides to every story, I'll attempt to find out the McLaren side and report back
As a casual observer I don't think it's possible for anyone to compete with the best drivers in F1 if it's approached on a part time basis. Being fully integrated into a team gives that bit extra an arrive and drive driver will never achieve no matter how talented they are.
Only exception I know of is Kimi  |
There’s a decent accounting of what took place that year in this book by Tim Considine:
American Grand Prix Racing: A Century of Drivers & Cars.
Most of the blame falls on McLaren, as they were exceedingly late to get their car running that season and Michael had no worthwhile testing. Between the car not running and bad weather, he didn’t have even two full days of seat time. In the races, the car constantly ****ed up and Michael made a few mistakes, from lack of knowledge of the drivers and the tracks. The car had potential, but McLaren did a **** job of preparation. Things like the engine failing to start, or the clutch failing to work, or it up shifting from 1st to 3rd on the starts, or the software forgetting where the car was on the track and adjusting the active suspension for the wrong corners, it was one thing after another. At one race, he got caught out in some marbles on the outside of a corner, which he wasn’t used to because an IndyCar they cleaned the track before the race. They didn’t do that in F1 and nobody told him.
Read Michael’s chapter in the book. It was a real **** show and I put most of the blame on Ron Dennis, and have hated that mother****er ever since. I doubt I will ever run into the guy at this point but if I do, he’s going to get his ass kicked.