Click here to return to the home page.
Image of a road.
Who's Online Now
5 members (gaston, Ruut Bianchi, MJF, Paul F, RichardV6), 258 guests, and 47 robots.
Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Top Posters(30 Days)
John V6 74
+8Rich 68
DaveW 67
Newest Members
Ulfulf, Wilfried, Classic-Line, BrunswickGreen44, Franco Morgan
9,203 Registered Users
Newest Topics
Super Three chain drive conversion
by Alastair - 22/07/25 04:18 PM
M3W - Anyone know this car?
by Biggle - 22/07/25 01:40 PM
S&S X Wedge Engine Gasket Source
by Morgan Dude - 22/07/25 02:13 AM
Supermax sprocket
by Laurens - 21/07/25 08:26 AM
Morgan 3 Wheeler song
by Dutch - 21/07/25 12:31 AM
Technical drawings, dimensions, 3D model M3W
by Oskar - 20/07/25 04:13 PM
Goggle eyed
by Roady - 19/07/25 06:16 PM
Latest Photos
Motorworld München
Motorworld München
by Oskar, July 20
visit to Classic Remise Düsseldorf
my book
my book
by Oskar, July 20
More Pictures of the MHR Visit
More Pictures of the MHR Visit
by DaveK, July 19
Visit to the Factory- Historic Morgan Group
Forum Statistics
Forums34
Topics48,340
Posts812,971
Members9,203
Most Online1,046
Aug 24th, 2023
Today's Birthdays
PPP356
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
#708689 04/07/21 05:19 PM
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 35,774
Likes: 468
+8Rich Offline OP
Tricky Dicky
Member of the Inner Circle
OP Offline
Tricky Dicky
Member of the Inner Circle
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 35,774
Likes: 468
Great to see this young blood driving the wheels off the McLaren this weekend.


2009 4/4 Henrietta
1999 Indigo Blue +8
2009 4/4 Sport Green prev
1993 Connaught Green +8 prev





Joined: May 2010
Posts: 9,285
Likes: 69
S
Needs to Get Out More!
Offline
Needs to Get Out More!
S
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 9,285
Likes: 69
Great to see him up there both as an individual and for McClaren. Thoroughly deserved result.


Plus Four MY23 Furka Rouge
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 1,642
Talk Morgan Enthusiast
Offline
Talk Morgan Enthusiast
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 1,642
... and undeserved penalty. Without that penalty he could've been second. Very impressive and being so young, he can have a great career ahead of him.


2010 Morgan +4
Me racing it: http://youtu.be/CQgT2vMLEUo
2014 M3W Brooklands
To be raced
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 1,360
Likes: 5
H
Has a lot to Say!
Offline
Has a lot to Say!
H
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 1,360
Likes: 5
He de man. Great racing skills and between him and George I am v positive for the future of British drivers in F1. Hope peeps like Ollie Caldwell and Jonny Edgar in F3 as well as Jamie Chadwick in W series continue the good work…
HB


Plus Four Bentley Velvet Red “Grandi P”
Golf ehybrid thingy “Toadie”
Polestar 4 “Vger”
Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 5,653
Likes: 4
Charter Member
Offline
Charter Member
Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 5,653
Likes: 4
Great performance today. Achieving results well above the teams capability in IMO.


Martin (Deano)
Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 5,877
Likes: 20
H
Charter Member
Offline
Charter Member
H
Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 5,877
Likes: 20
Originally Posted by deano
Great performance today. Achieving results well above the teams capability in IMO.


Thats one thing that never happens in F1. The driver is at most 5% of the result the rest being the engineers and builders. Sadly Ferrari show just that. Lando has done really well, repeatedly thrashing the Ozzie but its on the back of a resurgence by one of our greatest teams McLaren. Now all we need is for Williams to get their act together because they too have a potentially great young british driver.

Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 11,220
Likes: 159
Smile, it confuses them
Member of the Inner Circle
Offline
Smile, it confuses them
Member of the Inner Circle
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 11,220
Likes: 159
Yes it was a very different race to last weekend.

AMG have some work to do and the British/UK/English GP is going to be interesting.

I liked Lando's jokes about the McLaren lovers wearing orange for them in the crowd, that was clever. He drove a very smooth race and deserved it given they have shown constantly improving performance last season and this. Ferrari had better get a move on unless they want to be sharing pits with Haas next year. Even the speed of Leclerc cannot get that dog to hunt. I sense a building level of frustration in him which could lead to a team change if they are not careful.

Almost noticed moments of real competition and racing break out among the roundy roundy moments.

Williams had an F1 adjacent moment for certain, making it to Q3 and 9th on the start grid. For them that must have been a decent result and shows some signs of real improvement. It leaves me a bit conflicted. If, and I do say if, he leaves and replaces Valtteri to give Hamilton a run for it on his new 2 year contract that would probably break a strong building motivation in the Williams team. That's life I guess, make money from feeding the fast new talent in to make up for advertising revenue gaps.


Everyone loves a Morgan. Even me, unless it's broken again.
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 5,366
Likes: 15
Charter Member
Offline
Charter Member
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 5,366
Likes: 15
I wonder just what has happened at Ferrari. It isn't as though they can blame the engine providers as they are one of the very, very few teams in the post war years to have always built their own. They must have turned over two pages in the rule book because their customers ( Alfa & Haas ) are doing even worse. I wonder how Carlos felt looking up the grid at Lando who was well worth the price of admission. I just hope that when RB take over the engine development from Honda that they can keep up the momentum. One of the major revisions for next season must be either a gaging of or a total replacement of the stewards. I know there is usually an ex F1 driver to help them but for goodness sake, F1 is sometimes tedious enough without this invisible body making some very dubious decisions which affect both the race and the drivers.


Here for a good time not a long time!!
Reg
Joined: Jun 2019
Posts: 767
Likes: 45
Talk Morgan Regular
Offline
Talk Morgan Regular
Joined: Jun 2019
Posts: 767
Likes: 45
Congrats to Lando! Great qualifying and a great race.

It seemed to me there were no great tv angles of the incident. I'm sure the stewards were going by the basic rule that room must be left. Maybe they wouldn't have penalized him if there was more run off area instead of gravel.

Of course, if it was DTM it would have been just another day on the track.


Paul

1973 4/4 "Henry A"
1953 +4 Flat Rad "Pug"
1984 Citoen 2CV Special "BeBe"
https://morgan34.org/

Moderated by  TalkMorgan 

Link Copied to Clipboard
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.5