[McLaren] Welcome to McLaren Winners club, Lando Norris
Social MediaThe first driver I looked for when I saw this, haha
It looks like they almost forgot Mika lol
Yeah, was gonna say. It's like they forgot Mika and right before releasing the graphic they were like "o shit" lol
And then spelled his name wrong... Mika Håkkinen.
Christ, didn't even notice that. That's embarrassing.
Surprising that Mika is the only man in the pic in full-body...
Where’s ocon /s
Hell of a list. To many more, and to Oscar joining it soon as well
It’s funny how last year Oscar’s sprint win “totally counts as an F1 race win”, and now everyone has conveniently forgotten it.
It's a race win, but it's not a Grand Prix win, which is the one that matters most.
People only used that argument in Lando Nowins threads to shit on Lando from what I've seen lol
Nobody actually thinks a sprint win is the same as the actual race win
I don’t know where you got that counts totally as a race win from
It is has multiple cars going around a track, trying to reach the finish line first. It's no grand prix but, it sounds like a race to me.
Well that's right. It's not a Grand Prix. It's Petit Prix.
Half Prix Off.
But it doesnt tho
Nobody said that.
lol - yeah because now they have an actual win to celebrate
This is why I hate sprints the most, forever people were saying “Oscar piastri, the kinda sorta race winner but it really doesn’t count” if they don’t count then toss them in the fucking bin
Literally never seen that take lmao
This is good stuff to see. As a Ferrari fan, thumbs up and enjoy!
Illustrious
Still weird to me that Danny Ric is on it.
His win might be my favorite win of all time.
Danny Rics personality, his entire shitty career with McLaren as a backdrop, Lando's clear superior talent with that car, the "I never left" comment after, the tattoo, the fact that McLaren had such a long and shitty decade prior and Daniel was the one to break it.
I'm a sucker for chaos and that was absolute peak.
Mika😂
They had to have forgotten him at first. 2 championships and 20 races is more than most here lol.
4th, only one race win behind Lewis.
That is quite the club to be in.
Mika Håkkinen
They also spelled Mika's name wrong.
It's Häkkinen, not Håkkinen
They couldn't even copy it from wikipedia correctly
Putting Mika that far in the corner is just straight up disrespectful.
"So yeah, the double-champion can just go there I suppose."
"Put that Finnish guy uh, over there, yeah."
The Finn's like their space.
And Finns and their umlauts, what is the difference between å and ä right
Lol the intern who made this really doesn't like Mika. He looks like a fan cheering for the winners.
Hakkinen's championships are probably older than they are.
I bet they made a vertical version and forgot about Mika, so they tilted it and added him on the side to make the poster look "cooler"
maybe cos he's in sabbatical so his stats and legacy aren't definitive
Can't leave the horse alone, can you.
And writing his name incorrect…
I agree that's Mika, but then who's the guy right in the middle who looks kind of like Mika?
[I know the answer is probably obvious, but...]
Also: Prost's place isn't bad, but the difference between Prost and Senna certainly feels a little... one-sided...
Had to do a process of elimination. But that is Denny Hulme.
https://www.motorsportimages.com/photo/1973-swedish-grand-prix-1012729158/1012729158/
No, I knew that was Hulme (sorry!), I was talking about right in the middle. I guess that must be... Kovalainen? By a process of elimination? But I don't know why he'd be so large and central!
Heikki is next to Fernando
OK, that makes sense...
...so, again, am I just being stupid, but who is the guy behind Coulthard and between Jenson and Prost?
I know I probably should recognise him but I don't.
He's the man himself
OH! Oh, OK, he looks different from the side!
OK, got them sorted now, thanks.
Kovalainen is the one spraying himself in the face to the left of Alonso
LANDOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Mika stands in the sabbatical corner
They should’ve made jenson bigger to make up for last time
McLaren Sprint Wins group is more exclusive.
Really? He seems really annoying in his radios and interviews. Ignorant posh kid that is full of himself, but has a bit of self-reflection to not go full pissy like George Russell.
He doesn't seem too full of himself, though ignorant (clearly he focused on racing his entire adolescence) and posh are pretty accurate.
he seems to get that he's not always aware of other people's situations at least, so while he's in a bubble it doesn't seem like he looks down on others
He comes off as very humble and likeable to most.
lolwut?
While I agree, that he is hard to listen to while he is in the car, during interviews he always seemed like a kind and down to earth fella. Dumb as a brick as this YouTube series showed, but cool
Ignorant posh kid that is full of himself
To me it always feel like part of it is an act (or deliberately exaggerated). He is trying a bit too hard to play that 'too cool for this' persona.
Agreed, although he's matured a fair bit in the last year or so, so I find him tolerable these days... Still daft as a brush though.
4 Finnish winners, 3 with McLaren.
Keke was so close to joining the list in aus 1986 :(
Id forgotten about Heikki.
And my mind is drawing a blank on John Watson the F1 racer (keep thinking of the Doctor)
I forgot he used to be an F1 racer as my lifetime in motorsport has been with him on commentary.
Same. I surprised myself that I recognised who he was. Then totally forgot he'd won.
4 McLaren winners on the current grid, Lando being the only one under 34. Oldtimer club.
Why would they do that to Mika? Disrespectful imo.
They should've put Kimi there, cause thats a kimi move
Glad they remembered Jenson this time
Man, of all the pics they had to use for Montoya... They went with the one where he looks rather... unsure... Just an observation though.
Also, that pic of James Hunt holding the Champagne, though... XD
Interesting stat (maybe) only four drivers have won 20 races or more with McLaren. Senna (35) wins, Prost (30) wins, Lewis (21) wins and Mika (20) wins. David has 12 wins and everyone else has below 10 wins
Damn, it really felt like Button had a few more.
Had only 3 seasons of a car capable of. And competing against lewis in your team, a dominant Red Bull and Alonso 8 wins is quite fine :)
Cute. Let's see again in Imola.
Decent group
Oscar soon
Fangin' for an Oscar win
I'd love to see Lando and Oscar regularly fight for wins going forward
didn't really follow the past races that were at inconvenient times for Europe, but after Miami I'm super hyped lol
AI enhanced Alonso can't hurt yoy
Mika recreating the Ashley Cole at Roma team picture
Who the fuck is mika håkkinen?
Forgive my ignorence but who is the driver left of coulthard and right of prost? Because I thought that was mika at first glance but realised I just don't know who it is 😂
Interesting that Coulthard got his first win with McLaren before Mika did, despite starting with the team several years later
There's two Lando's! Who's the time travelling one (bottom right)?
They couldn't make Daniel a bit bigger on the poster?
He's a one time race winner bigger than some world champions. He's well represented.
He's probably the 3rd most eye catching figure on there, between the placement, the colour of the suit and the pose, I don't think the scale is a problem.
Illustrious company indeed!
Riccardo lol
A win is a win ki ki ay
They didn't forget Button this time