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Steve Nichols: engineering domination with McLaren

F1 Beyond The Grid

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The Turbo - What Did It Have?

We were able to dominate qualifying as well as the racing. So we didn't need to try to turn the boost way up. We'd be always trying to develop a race set-up, you know, how much boost, how many revs,. What sort of thing can we do to win the race? And sometimes we'd go into fuel debt, so to speak. You'd find yourself to lapse down on fuel because you'de been racing the normall aspirated cars. Then towards the end of the race, yo, we've got to get that fuel backwe need to get better fuel economy nowso that we can finish the race.

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