Seanspeed wrote: ↑26 Oct 2024, 22:55
Darth-Piekus wrote: ↑26 Oct 2024, 22:48
As I said before Mclaren has never had the last 10 years a car that dominant as the RB20 and RB19. Those cars especially the RB20 were so good that Perez a mediocre driver came 3rd in the WDC literally at the last race and 2nd comfortably the next year and he was just as bad as this year. Has anyone here Mclaren being on that dominating level yet? I bet that if Mclaren was as good as the RB20 they wouldnt have lost a single race since we gave a better driver set up.
Y'all just seem in a weird cope mode.
Regardless of what happened in any previous season, the Mclaren this year has easily been the best car overall for the large majority of it. Therefore one of its drivers should be expected to be able to win the WDC in it. Norris and the team have fumbled the ball so much though that this
might not happen(though it's still possible). And it doesn't help that they are indeed against a 'god tier' driver with Verstappen who has driven out of his mind to maximize results almost any given weekend this season, even when they've clearly not had a great car.
Is it really just so hard to admit that your team and lead driver have made mistakes and underperformed at times that have led them to be in their current situation?
That wasn't a reply to you so I don't know why you're replying to it.
As for the rest, I don't argue that McLaren should have been the team with the most race wins this season. What I do argue about is when people claim that they have had enough pace in hand to have easily won every race since Miami and that is just not true. The car hasn't been anywhere close to being the dominant force at every track and some of the races they lost, were lost because they required absolute perfect execution to overcome the tight margins. They failed to deliver and that's not really shocking considering this is the first time they find themselves fighting for wins after a decade. Even then, the only true clusterf*ck was Silverstone.
The reason why people are unwilling to acknowledge that McLaren threw Lando's WDC away, is because it's not true. Lando has thrown points away from mistakes of his own, but people act like he has thrown away the win every race since Miami.
And also people forget that they started the season at race 5. Max was already too far ahead by the time Miami came around and them being slower than Ferrari early on meant that they were getting very little points while Max was getting P1 every race.
Still, the WCC is still possible for them to win, so it's not a complete failure of a season as some people here suggest.
