Time Trial Tuesday #7 McLaren vs HAAS Albert Park, Melbourne, AU

I think I did about 15 laps in each car. Lap 14 in the HAAS was my best lap in the HAAS that I didn't invalidate. I kept running wide in the last left hander coming up to the start/finish straight. But the results in the HAAS were almost always the same. If you go mistake free as best you can, you make it to the straight at the middle of the second sector. then the McLaren just pulls away. I think I might have been within a second or less on some of the invaldiations as I would get a better start through turn 1 and run mistake free on the limit until the McLaren pulled away in the second sector straight.

But this was just a comparison on how much better the 2021 McLaren was vs the 2021 HAAS. I probably used different setups, but the McLaren was a bit easier to control and you pretty much had to go all out to the limit on the HAAS.

Between lap 1-5 in the McLaren I improved 5 seconds. Not sure what I did in the HAAS, but I was fairly consist, decent runs were in the 1:30.1 - 1:30.2 range. But still at least a seond slower than the McLaren.

It was aa little nerve wrecking but a pretty fun challenge trying to beat the McLaren time I had set previously.