Hello and Welcome to the ModelMclaren race round up blog! Today we have the Turkish Grand Prix, where we already went into the weekend with controversy.

Bossman Racing

Entering the race weekend we were still known as Bossman GP, a name which brought laughter with in the team, but great shame to the followers. Interviews with the public did not give us much help which we wanted. “Bossman GP is a Cancer to MF1” said a young fan. ” Unfunny meme, fam” said an elderly fan. Multiple arguments in MFOTA deemed to have made things worse, so before the race a decision was made to go back to the teams roots and be renamed back to Mclaren.

Practice

Practice gave us an indication of our pace. Kimi and Max drove their hearts out, but at most could only gather a place among the middle. According to Kimi “The hard compound may attack at any time, and we must deal with it”. During the Lunch Break we discovered a small issue with Max’s gearbox, but we decided to do nothing which played out well as Max got P7 in FP3.

Qualifying

Things didn’t plan out as well as the strategy guys wanted too. Max’s gearbox didn’t have 8th gear, but we decided not to tell him. This made him a Mad Max, and didn’t do a second stint in Q1 making him start on in front of the moving bollards. Kimi had a better time, but was still not up to Mclaren standard. He only just made it through to Q2, by just 0.008 of a second to get him through. Q2 was a whole different story, we didn’t allow him to have a magnum in between Q1 and Q2, so he deliberately set a slow time and didn’t go out for a second stint.

Race

Race day already started bad, so we knew things wouldn’t continue to go our way. Kimi became mad at us, thus raided his mini-bar the previous night. Being a Finn he didn’t want to show it, but we could tell that he had a slight hangover. Going to the Race, the start was decent, but we could tell that something was wrong. BRM’s started to overtake us, at which point we started to pack our bags. Max’s gearbox went completely, so we had to retire him. As our laptops were already packed, we didn’t see the telemetry, and Kimi ran out of fuel. But being hungover, he didn’t notice this. We broke the incredible BRM record of being lapped most times during a race. We want to forget about this race as soon as possible, and get Kimi some paracetamol immediately.

Congrats to my ex-team over at Manor for winning the race and thanks /u/tomtom615 for the wise words!

Next stop Catalunya.