Vandoorne ‘wishes’ for McLaren pace drop answers
Stoffel Vandoorne says he has no answers for why he’s suffered a sudden drop in speed for McLaren after qualꦏifying in last place for the German Grand Prix.
The Belgian driver has suffered a nightmare few races in Formula 1 which appears set to continue at Hockenheim after qualifying last for McLaren, two-tenths of a second slower than nearest rival Lance Stroll in the Williams, while teammate Fernando Alonso grabbed 11th place.

Stoffel Vandoorne say꧃s he has no answers for why he’s suffered a sudden drop in speed for McLaren after qualifying in last place for the German Grand♔ Prix.
The Belgian driver has suffered a nightmare few races in Formula 1 which appears set to continue at Hockenheim after qualifying last for McLaren, two-tenths of a second slower than nearest rival Lance Stroll in the Williams, while teammate Fernando Alonso grabbed 11th place.
Vandoorn♛e feels the same issues he suffered from at Silverstone are hurting his performances in Germany, with a huge lack of grip from his MCL33, and has revealed McLaren has ‘done nearly everything’ to resolve the problem.
“I wish I could give an answer,” Vandoorne said when quizzed on his lack of pace. “We've put in a lot of ef𝄹fort already to solve what is going on. We've changed a lot of parts on the car. We've done nearly everything, and♉ we've come out of qualifying with the same kind of problems.
“I think since Silverstone, we🐼've been almost last in every session by quite a big margin. So far there's nothing more I can say.
“The priority now is to find what is going on. I don't think we've touc💯hed the point yet where things are not working, so that's kind of the main priority now.
“I didn’t forget how to drive a car. The cars are in a similar spec [t𒊎o Alonso’s] it’s just that we can see an issue on the car. We’ve changed over a lot of parts already and at the moment we don’t have a solution for it.”
Vandoorne♍ has a horrific record in terms of qualifying compared to McLaren♍ teammate Alonso this season with the two-time F1 world champion out-qualifying him at every round so far this season.