McLaren’s Martin Whitmarsh is confident that, at Hockenheim this weekend, the team will be reintroducing the blown diffuser which it took off its cars at Silverstone last time out. Despite the Northamptonshire problems, however, the squad still collected more points than any other to extend its World Championship lead.
One has to look back to 1998 to the last time McLaren enjoyed Constructors’ Championship honours although, despite having lost significant time by temporarily scrapping its blown diffuser after Friday practice in Britain, British Champions Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button still managed a combined 30 points.
“We’re working on the premise that we will have the blown diffusers on both cars to start with,” Team Principal Whitmarsh explained during the Vodafone phone-in on Tuesday.
“Lewis did want to keep the blown diffuser on Friday night at Silverstone but we made the decision to switch them both back to the old one.
“We could have divided the drivers, if there was a preference from one side of the garage to the other, but I will avoid that; although we will do it if we think it’s the right way to perform – sometimes there are advantages to running one car with one configuration and one with another, but only if don’t end up being accused of treating the two drivers differently in the process.”
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