Martin Whitmarsh says he is feeling positive that McLaren will be fighting at the front with Red Bull and Ferrari at the Singapore GP next weekend.
The track has been touted as Red Bull territory as it features slow corners which call for high-downforce set-ups, something which comes naturally to the RB6.
Nevertheless, Whitmarsh believes recent developments on the MP4-25 and new restrictions on flexible bodywork will see the Woking team in a much more competitive guise when compared to the similar Hungaroring.
“It’s the first race at a low-speed, high-downforce track since the Hungaroring back in August” said Whitmarsh.
“It’s also the first high-downforce track we’ve visited since the FIA tightened up its regulations on flexible bodywork, so it’s likely to give us a much clearer idea of the respective pace of the leading teams after two less-representative events in Belgium and Italy.
“This is a race the whole team looks forward to enormously, and we travel to Singapore with a number of new ideas to try out on our cars, feeling positive that we’ll once again be in a position to race at the front,” he concluded.
