cplchanb wrote: ↑04 Sep 2021, 16:46
JordanMugen wrote: ↑04 Sep 2021, 16:34
cplchanb wrote: ↑04 Sep 2021, 16:31
it really just goes to show that this car is designed to primarily suit max
Or it's just built in the direction which is fastest? It's not like Benetton for instance deliberately made a car that was hard to drive, they just made the fastest car they could. It's not up to them to reinvent the wheel so Verstappen Snr, Herbert, Alesi or Berger could drive it better. Same goes for Red Bull.
think about it though... had the car been more balanced towards other drivers other than max
it probably wouldve had compromises that would slow the cars overall pace down. max has been with the team since 2016 as markos prodigy so development since then was always going to be centered around him. they wont admit it, but max is their #1 driver like schumacher at ferrari hands down.
Yes, that's what I meant. Red Bull, like Benetton, have simply built the fastest car possible, accepting that it will be a little tricky to drive.
I think Red Bull admit quite openly that Max is the number one driver, that is not a secret! They only asked for Perez to be within 3 tenths, they weren't expecting Perez to match or beat Verstappen. But at the same time, they are not going to waste resources making large changes to the car on Perez's request, just as they did not do this for Gasly, and why they were so frustrated with Gasly who constantly asked for big changes to the Red Bull.\\
It's up to the second driver to drive the car with the same technique as the lead driver -- to look at the lead driver's data traces and duplicate those data traces. This applied to Vettel as Ferrari's second driver it was up to Vettel to duplicate LeClerc's data traces, and currently to Perez as Red Bull's second driver and Ricciardo as McLaren's second driver -- they are simply asked to duplicate the technique and data traces of Verstappen and Norris respectively.
None of these teams have the desire to design a completely different car for the second driver, that's an unreasonable amount of work and wasted duplication of effort!