lando on whether he feels more affected by reliability issues than other drivers using HPP:
“well i wouldn't say george is having the best season either, would you? it just seems that's the struggles we have. i think mercedes has had a fair share of issues.
oscar, less than me, and kimi less than george. that's just the way it is sometimes. sometimes that's just life, nothing i can do. i just go out, i try and do the best i can, and that's all i can really achieve.”
lando addresses the possibility of future grid penalties:
“the problem is i’m on my third power unit already, third battery, and i’m taking penalties from this one onward. so hopefully that’s not the case, but i don’t know what to expect nowadays.
it seems like every weekend we have something, but it’s not just mclaren, it’s mercedes as well – and between HPP and mclaren, we have to do a better job, because it’s just not good enough.”
“there’s gonna be plenty more tough moments in my career of formula 1 where i’m getting beaten by, my teammate or other drivers, or i’m just struggling with a car or a track, and i can go, but there was that time when i was struggling and i came back” oh lando 🥹❤️
That’s what is literally happening.
They don’t know the source so they try desperately to fix it then makes it worse or just changing everything, and at the end he still retires lol
lando on his DNF: “yeah, there was just a lot of stuff i could hear from the engine, the turbo, the battery, a lot of things that don’t sound correct.
we tried to fix it; it made the problem worse. we put it back, so i had the problems again, but seemed to have to live with it, and then, in the end, they just completely went”
lando on how highly inconsistent the mclaren package has been in terms of performance from track to track: “you just look back to a couple of weeks ago in miami, we fought for a win, probably should have won the race. the fact we can go from almost winning a race against the mercedes to being so far off is pretty crazy.
it shows that the car works quite specifically in certain scenarios and clearly not in others. so the team need to understand this, we need to understand how we can develop the car more well-rounded, like the mercedes is proving to be. for now we just have to keep working, that’s all we can do.”
Lando was forced to retire the car during today's Monaco GP, absolutely gutted for him 💔 The last few weekends have been super unlucky for him, but I see how hard he works and I know he'll keep doing that no matter what's thrown at him 🙌
🚨 BREAKING: AutoRacer reports Red Bull is expected to have the strongest ICE, they won't have ADUO available.
Mercedes would reportedly qualify for 2% ADUO concessions, Ferrari for over 4%, Audi for 4-6%, and Honda for 6-8%.
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lando: “i always have faith in the team. i always had faith in the team. some things take time [..]
it's just we have to keep chipping away. it just hurts to start a lot of races and not even finish. but, yeah, it's life sometimes”