djos wrote: ↑25 Sep 2023, 12:43
Wouter wrote: ↑25 Sep 2023, 12:36
djos wrote: ↑25 Sep 2023, 11:37
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You try driving a car described
by Lando as follows, and let me know how many points you score:
That is a bucket of crap if I ever heard of one!
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Well, according to you McLarens car was no good, Norris is no good, only Ricciardo is good!
Norris said last year that the car required a different driving behavior from the driver in every corner.
Norris was able to adjust his driving style accordingly, but Ricciardo could not.
A good driver can adapt to that. So can Max, Lewis, Lando and Alonso. Ricciardo is simply not a good driver.
That was way back in the day when the car was just that way so he could drive it well.
I'll leave it at that because you are such a huge Ricciardo fan that you are blind to reality.
That's complete BS, Lando is a superb driver, absolutely top shelf!
Norris however had the advantage of driving their cars for the last 5 years and has had time to adapt. Just look at him vs Piastri - Piastri is able to get the speed out of the car for 1 lap, but Norris destroys him over a race distance. Lando has developed his driving style around the badly flawed McLaren's so understands their flaws.
Look, we don't know how Daniel would go in the Red Bull, this year's, next year's, but it certainly looks like unless it's an easy car to drive fast, he won't manage it. Look at Checo, he won from almost last place in the pink car at Jeddah, yet in this year's Red Bull his ability to gel with the car has been patchy. Difficult cars are difficult for most drivers to tame, it doesn't bode well for Daniel to try matching him with a car that has been notoriously difficult for Gasly, Albon, and Perez.
Likewise we don't know the thinking in the minds of Horner and Marko, their driver choices have, even in retrospect, seemed in the main, bizarre and unsuccessful. Max has been their cornerstone since he got on terms with Daniel and Daniel was given unofficial number two status. Only on rare occasions have teammates of Max been able to do anything like what he can, and regularly does do. Because the cars develop in a way Max can extract tremendous pace, which means an extreme balancing act.
Lawson has been passed over by Red Bull for an AT spot enough times, including after proving he can be instantly on it, that it seems they have other ideas of what a Red Bull driver is and isn't. It also seems that most F1 insiders find it bizarre that the "other rookie sensation" of 2023 can't find a drive in spite of some pretty mediocre and ageing talent.