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McLaren accepts it 'got it wrong' on compound choices
McLaren Sporting Director Gil de Ferran has accepted that the team “got it wrong” regarding its tyre choices for this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix. Formula 1 teams are free to choose the compound make-up for 10 of its 13 sets for each driver, with McLaren selecting four batches of Supersofts to tackle the Suzuka weekend. But its rivals all chose between seven and 10 sets of the red-banded compound, leaving the Woking-based team as an anomaly. McLaren was the slowest team during qualifying as Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne finished 18th and 19th, in front of only Marcus Ericsson, who crashed. “The history to the tyre choice is the following: I think earlier...
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