cplchanb wrote: ↑21 Jul 2023, 17:01
if anything this supports the notion that the cars that RB builds only max can drive it to its potential and theyre developing that car on that knifes edge.
regardless of max's skill the car is clearly suited for his style and thats probably why the second drivers since 2019 have struggled.
Perez has said the rb19 is not suited to either driver. At the beginning of the season they did not even have the ideal front wing for Bahrain - max's engineer talked on the radio about knowing their limitations in terms of having to deal with understeer there with other tools
In other words if anything the rb19 is not suited to either driver but if anything was suited to checo more at the start of the season.
No significant upgrades were brought around the time that Perez began struggling (Miami-monaco) that could have changed the behaviour/balance of the car so significantly
Checo himself has said he likes to drive the car and it suits him, so I don't know where you got this idea
Also the RB18.. suited max!? For the first half of the year it understeered like a boat and from spa onwards the balance was hit/miss in terms of whether there was understeer. But Max seemed to drive that car just fine
Max says he didn't enjoy the loose rear of the rb16 in '20, but apparently they developed that car to suit only him
maybe they got lured down a certain unstable path by Max's ability to drive around fundamental issues as Waché the technical director has talked about, but that's a hurdle to overcome for the technical team, not something they're intending to achieve! Why would they want to hamper themselves in the WCC?