AR3-GP wrote: ↑24 Jun 2023, 19:05
Week in week out, he is now competing for a podium spot again. The 41-year-old driver himself praises his team: "To be honest, I cannot remember another time in my career when I had so much confidence in a team and in a project itself."
https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/216985/n ... areer.html
His biggest fault is not qualifying or anything else, it's his misfortune with career choices. He's only enjoyed two years of being in the right place at the right time and they weren't dominant cars at all, in fact 2005/2006 were some of the closest constructor's championships in history. Fernando has never had a dominant car ever in his F1 career compared to Vettel Lewis and Max who've had years of them as only RedBull and Mercedes have won in F1 over the last 13 seasons.
While complaining about luck is often a poor excuse in other sports (and also in F1 as well), this is basically an engineering competition where the driver is just a small piece of the whole puzzle and no matter how well you drive you can finish out of the points or DNF.
At least it seems luck is finally coming his way now with the Aston project but as long as it doesn't end in a championship it won't have been enough. Though I don't want to seem sad as it's certainly a much better time than the last decade.