Every article I've ever seen written by him is negative, filled with an air of passive aggressive hate. Did he fall out with someone in the team or something?
Why does Gary Anderson hate McLaren?
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, Jul 31 2018 13:35
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Mc_Silver
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Posted 31 July 2018 - 13:40
He has always been critical about McLaren. Autosport administration should warn him as he is too much biased which is against the spirit of Autosport.
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Dr. Austin
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Posted 31 July 2018 - 13:41
He has always been critical about McLaren. Autosport administration should warn him as he is too much biased which is against the spirit of Autosport.
He'de fit right in with the American media.
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Posted 31 July 2018 - 13:50
He'de fit right in with the American media.
Or the team on SKY F1 UK.
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Posted 31 July 2018 - 13:59
I think I once raised a thread on here with the same title!
His latest piece seems to be - Key going to McLaren, therefore Key's probably not that good or Red Bull would have wanted him in their main team. And even if he is any good, it won't work out anyway.
Just bile.
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Posted 31 July 2018 - 14:10
Gary Anderson was asked the exact question when he used to do Q&As on Autosport.com...
https://www.autospor...ou-hate-mclaren
Why do you hate McLaren so much?
Gordon Chree, via Twitter
Gordon, actually you have got it all wrong. I'm a great supporter of McLaren as a team.
I used to work for McLaren many years ago, and there are still some of the people there that I worked with from my days spannering in the late 1970s.
What I do hate is what McLaren has become. It has everything it needs to be poking it right up Red Bull or Mercedes or whoever is at the top, yet for many years it has squandered that.
Last year, McLaren had the Mercedes power unit that dominated the season in the back of the works Mercedes cars. As Williams showed, it could be used very effectively by a customer team - but to no avail for McLaren.
This year, McLaren changed to Honda. We all know that to get success out of this, it will be a long-term project. But I want to see some passion, a bit like Fernando Alonso on the radio at Suzuka.
It's not so many years since Ron Dennis made one of his famous statements after being congratulated for finishing runner-up: "second is the first of the losers".
He's not saying very much now.
I never thought I would be saying this, but personally - and I hopefully speak for many McLaren fans - I'd like to hear him talk about the pain of the situation he is going through.
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Posted 31 July 2018 - 14:14
He hates Mclaren because it's easy.
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potmotr
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Posted 31 July 2018 - 14:17
I mean, I kind of agree with a lot of his criticisms.
McLaren has been terrible for five years, despite numerous changes and promises of improvement.
Isn't Anderson just saying it like it is?
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Posted 31 July 2018 - 14:20
Hard to disagree with his comments above, mind you since then they have gone back even further and are now wandering around aimlessly without direction. Well done Zak.
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Posted 31 July 2018 - 14:21
He says he doesn't hate McLaren...but then goes onto say very quickly that he hates what McLaren currently is. That's only semantically different. He hates McLaren, there's no two ways about it.
It's like saying - I don't hate my ex-wife because we got married, however I hate her now. She's really annoying and I can't stand anything she does 
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Posted 31 July 2018 - 14:57
Gary Anderson was asked the exact question when he used to do Q&As on Autosport.com...
https://www.autospor...ou-hate-mclaren
Why do you hate McLaren so much?
Gordon Chree, via Twitter
Gordon, actually you have got it all wrong. I'm a great supporter of McLaren as a team.
I used to work for McLaren many years ago, and there are still some of the people there that I worked with from my days spannering in the late 1970s.
What I do hate is what McLaren has become. It has everything it needs to be poking it right up Red Bull or Mercedes or whoever is at the top, yet for many years it has squandered that.
Last year, McLaren had the Mercedes power unit that dominated the season in the back of the works Mercedes cars. As Williams showed, it could be used very effectively by a customer team - but to no avail for McLaren.
This year, McLaren changed to Honda. We all know that to get success out of this, it will be a long-term project. But I want to see some passion, a bit like Fernando Alonso on the radio at Suzuka.
It's not so many years since Ron Dennis made one of his famous statements after being congratulated for finishing runner-up: "second is the first of the losers".
He's not saying very much now.
I never thought I would be saying this, but personally - and I hopefully speak for many McLaren fans - I'd like to hear him talk about the pain of the situation he is going through.
Straight from the horse's mouth then. I'm closing the thread now.
