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Perez has 3-4 races to prove himself, chances are he’ll crash to New lows and Daniel will replace him. Then Liam will get called up to RB early.
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Supertimes gaps for the 10 team-mate pairings so far in 2024
To get a clearer view of the drivers’ actual speed, we’ve looked at supertimes. Supertimes are based on the fastest single lap by each driver at each race weekend, expressed as a percentage of the fastest single lap overall and averaged over the season.
This normally means qualifying and also has the benefit of largely (though not entirely) eradicating a driver struck with a problem or misfortune in a given session because it takes into account the whole weekend. It’s not perfect – it gives us no steer on how consistent a driver is over a race stint, for example – but for raw speed, it can be enlightening.
1. Gasly-Ocon 0.015%
2. Russell-Hamilton 0.101%
3. Leclerc-Sainz 0.134%
4. Norris-Piastri 0.185%
5. Tsunoda-Ricciardo 0.196%
6. Alonso-Stroll 0.211%
7. Hulkenberg-Magnussen 0.426%
8. Bottas-Zhou 0.643%
9. Albon-Sargeant 0.675%
10. Verstappen-Perez 0.953%
It should be noted that the gap between Tsunoda and Ricciardo has been closing in recent GPs.
The first thing to note is how remarkably close Alpine drivers Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon are.
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It should be noted that the gap between Tsunoda and Ricciardo has been closing in recent GPs.
There’s no doubt Yuki is super fast, but he still needs to work on himself. That outburst at his engineer in Belgium during Q1, shows he still has some work to do.Jurgen von Diaz wrote: ↑11 Aug 2024, 17:54It should be noted that the gap between Tsunoda and Ricciardo has been closing in recent GPs.
Tsunoda is never a contender for Red Bull, but when Ricciardo gets near Tsunoda, oh yes, Daniel should be considered for the Red Bull seat. It's a yoke.
And the other thing is, when Verstappen and Tsunoda are shouting on the radio, the conclusion is Tsunoda needs to chill, but Verstappen may carry on because he is a champion. Horner even defended Verstappen after his outburst. It's just Horner's policy that he doesn't want Tsunoda in Red Bull's seat, no matter what. But when Ricciardo shows a smile, he is a contender right away.djos wrote:There’s no doubt Yuki is super fast, but he still needs to work on himself. That outburst at his engineer in Belgium during Q1, shows he still has some work to do.Jurgen von Diaz wrote: ↑11 Aug 2024, 17:54It should be noted that the gap between Tsunoda and Ricciardo has been closing in recent GPs.
Tsunoda is never a contender for Red Bull, but when Ricciardo gets near Tsunoda, oh yes, Daniel should be considered for the Red Bull seat. It's a yoke.
Maybe RedBull don’t want two drivers carrying on like that. Max should grow up too IMO.Jurgen von Diaz wrote: ↑12 Aug 2024, 06:42And the other thing is, when Verstappen and Tsunoda are shouting on the radio, the conclusion is Tsunoda needs to chill, but Verstappen may carry on because he is a champion. Horner even defended Verstappen after his outburst. It's just Horner's policy that he doesn't want Tsunoda in Red Bull's seat, no matter what. But when Ricciardo shows a smile, he is a contender right away.djos wrote:There’s no doubt Yuki is super fast, but he still needs to work on himself. That outburst at his engineer in Belgium during Q1, shows he still has some work to do.Jurgen von Diaz wrote: ↑11 Aug 2024, 17:54
Tsunoda is never a contender for Red Bull, but when Ricciardo gets near Tsunoda, oh yes, Daniel should be considered for the Red Bull seat. It's a yoke.
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ricc ... /10644070/"I think now he's definitely getting probably the credit that he deserves," Ricciardo stated in an exclusive interview with Motorsport.com.
"Probably a lot of people still think about his first year where he made a lot of mistakes, and it felt like his adjustment into Formula 1, it just felt like maybe he couldn't really adjust and it was all a bit too much.
"[In 2021 and 2022, Pierre] Gasly was consistently beating him, but then I remember the second half of that year, he actually started to probably have a better showing than Gasly.
"He's definitely grown a lot in the last couple of years. So yes, he's fast. Do I rate him? I do. He's probably become a bit more aware of his attitude as well. I think he's doing a really good job."
Exclusive: Tsunoda will be considered for Red Bull promotion if he keeps performing - Bayer
Tsunoda may have been overlooked for a Red Bull spot this year, but he remains in the picture for 2025
“Helmut [Marko, Red Bull's motorsport advisor] said it himself, in German you say a swallow doesn't make a summer,” Bayer told Autosport. “What it means is that if Yuki keeps racing on this level consistently, he will be considered for a seat in Red Bull Racing.
RB team principal Laurent Mekies has rated Tsunoda’s improvement in his fourth year in F1 as “phenomenal” and has admired his ambition to move up to Red Bull.
“You expect a lot of things from a young guy between the first and the second year, maybe between the second and the third year,” Mekies said. “But you don't expect that sort of phenomenal step between third and fourth, so - yes, he's faster. Yes, he's calmer. Yes, he's better integrating the team, better feedback, hopefully happy!
“But seriously, he has been a reference point in the way that he gets out of the garage on Friday FP1 - and, bang: the first lap, he is there.
Mekies added: “Yuki is a Red Bull driver. He must have the ambition to drive for Red Bull Racing. If he doesn't have that - it's wrong.
“I hope and I trust that he wants more than anything else to drive that car to win races. We also try to help him developing him in that way. So that's what the business is.
“Was he fully happy to extend with us to drive for us next year? Yes, [and] it's a question for him but because what he tells us is that he is mega ambitious, he can see a team [that] is mega ambitious and the fit is obviously working.
“It helps him develop, he has paid us back with quite [an] incredible level of performance.”
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Yuki Tsunoda #22
Third Practice Session – Best lap: NTS, pos. 19th, 4 laps
Qualifying – Best lap: (Q1) 1:11.603, (Q2) 1:10.955, pos. 13th
“I’m definitely disappointed, it feels like we stepped down quite a lot from FP2. I was happy with my lap, but for whatever reason we lacked quite a lot of pace compared to what we had. I thought we’d go through quite easily, but even in Q1 we struggled quite a lot, and it was pretty tight to get P10, so we’ll have to revise what happened. It’s not too bad of a place to start to score points, the last two days has been very inconsistent weather and we saw from last year in the race anything can happen, so I’ll try my best.”
Daniel Ricciardo #3
Third Practice Session – Best lap: 1:25.433, pos. 18th, 7 laps
Qualifying – Best lap: (Q1) 1:11.943, pos. 16th
“It was definitely tricky out there in a windy day and with generally tough conditions. It was really hard to put a clean lap together in qualifying, and I just felt that I was probably struggling a little bit more than maybe some others. We found things in the setup last night that were encouraging coming into today, but unfortunately, we were not quick enough and just very much on a knife edge. I was sliding with the rear out of some turns so I had to take a bit of margin, but in doing that we were slow because I couldn’t push as much as I would have liked to, and that is where I felt I couldn’t get the lap out of it. Being out in Q1 doesn’t help ahead of tomorrow as it’s a narrow circuit and not one of those notorious for easily overtaking, but let’s see what happens.”