Did you notice that after the departure of Adrian Newey, things seem to be better? Now, the overheating engine problem has gone..... to another team.

engine heating nothing to do with newey... engine is under mario illien,he now in motogp...mclaren lost 3 engineer
newey - chasis (now in rbr)
illien - engine (own ilmor motogp team)
tombazis - aerodynamic (back to ferrari)

anyone know the race engineer for el Alonzo??

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Added on June 6, 2007, 4:23 pm

u wrong dude,aerodynamic can effect the engine heating,newey must help illien to get a lot of air to colling the engine by make a good deflector panel and turbulent air flow(side pod) but he only make an aerodynamic work to increase car speed
a good aerodynamic is who can create bodywork which can increase car speed,balancing wing (oversteer and understeer) to make driver suitable and make great airflow to support engine

you can read more about this in 50th Annual Formula 1 book (publish in 2001)

hermm.. i never heard mclaren had engine overheating problem...what they had hydraulic failure,software failure,broken or crack component... n untill now mclaren still using newey design chasis

kimi`s engine has overheating at MonteCarlo`06 during safety car bcos he cant control his engine rev properly

mclaren also has a lot of engine problem in 2005,i think kimi has 3 penalties(drop ten grid)at Monza,Silverstone and Magny Cours bcos of Mercedes engine

kimi`s engine has overheating at MonteCarlo`06 during safety car bcos he cant control his engine rev properly

mclaren also has a lot of engine problem in 2005,i think kimi has 3 penalties(drop ten grid)at Monza,Silverstone and Magny Cours bcos of Mercedes engine

McLaren's Fernando Alonso set fastest times in both of Friday's free practice sessions for the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal with 1m17.759 in the morning and 1m16.550 in the afternoon. His team mate Lewis Hamilton was second fastest in the first practice with 1m17.967 and third fastest in the second session with 1m17.307. Fernando did 17 and 37 laps respectively whilst Lewis completed 20 and 36 laps.

"A good start to our weekend at a challenging circuit. In the first session we limited our running slightly as the track was very dirty and only used one set of tyres, but still emerged fastest," said Alonso. "The second session was spent on tyre evaluation and also looking at the brakes and we have made some good progress. I don't think we will dominate like we did at the last race in Monaco and the track conditions here means that it's very hard to estimate where our competition is, but so far so good."

Hamilton commented, "Today was the first time I had the opportunity to drive at the Montreal circuit and I really enjoyed myself. We had done a lot of work back in the UK with our simulation programme and also I have watched a few of the past races here but you can't beat the real thing. We worked on set-up, tyre evaluation and also looking at the brakes as this circuit is notoriously hard on the brakes. There were no problems and it looks like we are in good shape."

Team boss Ron Dennis added, "A troublefree start to our Canadian Grand Prix weekend. The team has worked hard since Monaco on finding further improvements and so far it looks like we could have a competitive weekend. As always on a Friday both drivers focused on general set-up work and tyre evaluation but we also did some work with the brakes as these are a key factor at this particular circuit."

but alonso claimed that they wont dominate in montreal as like in monaco but at the mean time in practice alonso leads both session prior to qualifying..in qualifying we can have a better look at the ferraris as they usually start to show their colors from practice onwards