Andres125sx wrote: ↑11 Jul 2022, 08:00
Disagree about the picture you explain about points lost, Sainz has lost a lot due to luck, and Lecrerc has lost some significant due to his own mistakes too.
Any reason to state Sainz will not accept TOs, even when he has always been an extremelly fair team player?
What luck? He ran out of P9 in Melbourne - 2 points. He qualified poorly in Misano due to his own crash, got into risky position in the race and was taken out from P4 - 12 points. Azerbaijan was engine DNF from P4 - 12 points. Austria was engine DNF from P2 - 18 points. That's a total of 44 points.
Leclerc lost 50 points from 2 engine DNFs alone. In Monaco he lost 13 points with pit wall error, just like Silverstone. In Silverstone, Sainz got + 7 points because of that. So actually, Leclerc lost a total of
83 points to Sainz with no fault of his own - twice as much as Sainz lost (which was in part his own fault too). Even those things out and Leclerc should be
76 points ahead of Sainz, instead of only 37. This would reflect their skill levels quite well actually.
Ferrari let Vettel and Raikkonen race in '17 and '18. They might not have won those two titles anyway, but they sure shot themselves in the foot because of that. This season, there is an even bigger difference in driver skill than between Vettel and Raikkonen. If they continue to let these two race, they really don't deserve neither title.
And if Sainz keeps refusing team strategy like in Monaco and Silverstone, he doesn't deserve his seat. No wonder Helmut Marko described his stay with Max at STR as toxic. I'd rather see Bottas there, even if he might be a slightly slower driver.