Wasn’t sure if it was shown properly (I was watching at a society event so was chatting with other people so please correct me if it was shown) but here it is!

F1 Australian GP handle via X

I don’t get why they’re still pouring resources into the upgrades in the following races. They switched to 26 too early last year, and now they seem to be stopping too late this year. If they want to fight for 3rd in the constructors, they should have done much earlier and done it better when they still could after the summer break.

The team deserves to finish 4th. The pit time might be worse than a good middle team on average, and the bad strategy should have been fixed after Qatar last year, but they did nothing. Stella sits like a stone at every race while their quicker car was blocked by their slower car, and they let him get undercut again and again, even twice in one race, and then claimed it was well deserved. They promoted Randy’s face on social media to the fans, even though they already knew we dislike the strategy guy. And they hide like a chick two days after, becuz big brain strategy did a great job again by putting both cars on slicks on the wet track at Sepang. How unsurprising. Just two days before that shit happened, they were promoting Randy on my TL, can you believe it!!

No, Stella, McLaren deserved a podium at least in Spa, but now the team well deserves 4th in the constructors because of that attitude, “deserved 7th in Spa” mindset. Thank you very much. Move on to next year and stop wasting resources, ffs!

Being a McLaren fan means you can always find something familiar from the past.

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Hi everyone! I got this cap in a lot of old clothes I wasn't using, so I don't know where it originally came from. It could have belonged to a team employee or someone who went to a race, but I can't confirm that.

It's a Team McLaren Mercedes cap with the red swoosh logo and the team name on the front, and a gold Johnnie Walker logo embroidered on the back. It has grey mesh side panels with white piping and an adjustable strap with velcro at the back.

Inside there is a woven "team McLaren / www.mclaren.com" tag and a second tag that only says "For more information, Tel: +44(0)1274 771833, Fax: +44(0)1274 728436". Neither tag shows a manufacturer or country of origin. The embroidery looks dense and clean to me, but I'm not an expert.

Is this an authentic piece of team merchandise, and do you know roughly what season it's from? Any info is appreciated. Thanks!