Talk:McLaren MP4/15

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:02, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Reliability versus the Ferrari F1-2000

Both this article and the Ferrari F1-2000 article say/suggest that the McLaren was faster but the Ferrari was more reliable (thereby enabling Schumacher and Ferrari to claim the championships). But if you look at the results tables, there are 5 retirements for the McLaren versus 8 for the Ferrari. Of course, it could be more complicated than that - some of the Ferrari retirements may have been caused by the drivers or team rather than mechanical unreliability, or the McLarens may have suffered from reliability problems which slowed them down but didn't cause outright retirements, but regardless, do we have a source to back up what's written in the articles? DH85868993 (talk) 21:47, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

When I originally wrote this article, I was thinking specifically of the Schumacher-Häkkinen duel, in which Schumacher had two mechanical retirements and Häkkinen three during the season (including the memorable engine failure at the US GP nearing the climax of the championship). However, Coulthard only had one mechanical retirement (unless his DQ from the Brazilian GP is also included), compared to Barrichello's two, so I'll change the articles accordingly.--Diniz(talk) 21:55, 18 February 2009 (UTC)