Watch The McLaren Team Totally Botch A Pit Stop During F1 Testing

McLaren totally messed up a practice pit stop during the second F1 test when a wheel was put on the wrong way around, followed up by another stop during which a car was dropped off the jack

Dan Thorn

09 Mar 2018

During F1 testing you expect to see teams encounter a few issues as they work out various teething problems with the new cars. McLaren has had more issues than most so far, even though it’s switched the troublesome Honda engines for Renault units. There was no blaming engines with this embarrassing pit stop fail though, which sees a mechanic put a wheel on the wrong way around, much to the apparent amusement of the rear jack man.

Teams undergo thousands of practice pit stops in order to shave off every last vital fraction of a second, so the odd slip up is inevitable, right? Well, the following day McLaren had another nightmare as the car dropped off the rear jack.

Another unfortunate pitstop for McLaren in testing 😳 Submitted by: Martijn Joustra #f1 #formula1 #f1testing #wtf1
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At least it’s only happening in testing, but there’s clearly still plenty more work to do for McLaren in the weeks before the first race, which takes place in Melbourne on 25 March.

Comments

Mclaren : Dont screw this season again man. We had enough
Mclaren Pit crew : Hold my beer

McLaren: hOnDa’S EnGiNEs aRe UnrELiablE

Few months later
Oh fxck

And Renault engines haven’t been very reliable.

And more 😂😂😂 AliMahfooz

In my opinion, the reason why Mclaren has generally been unreliable is because they don’t install their engine correctly.

If I remember correctly, in 2012, with the Mercedes engine, McLaren was the fastest at many tracks, but dropped out of the title fight due to bad reliability. In 2014, they had the Mercedes engine, but were nearly defeated by Force India.

This is all just my opinion, and I hope Mclaren will improve in 2018, despite what testing suggests.

Could Fernando’s F1 career be over?

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I don’t think ferrari would want alonso after how their previous stint went . Ferrari also want harmony in the team and raikkonen and vettel get along very well . Plus ferrari have got leclerc waiting in the wings and alonso has said that he would be happy if mclaren is his last f1 team .