El Scorchio wrote: ↑29 Aug 2021, 13:53
Big Tea wrote: ↑29 Aug 2021, 13:33
Unf wrote: ↑29 Aug 2021, 13:31
About Russel it is important to say that his nickname "Mr. Saturday" is not going from nowhere
His racecraft is still a big question, since he is known from losing a lot of places after start of the races...
But how much of this is because he is starting far in front of where he should be? 'Better' cars are going to be better starters than those the Williams should be mixing with
Exactly right. Granted he’s made some mistakes in a few situations (though if you tell me one single driver who hasn’t, then you’d be lying through your teeth) but more often than not he’s up against drivers in somewhat better machinery when he puts his car halfway up the grid.
It is a fair point, but you could say the same for, say, Trulli. In the days where overtaking was so much harder, that set up the Trulli train, but part of it was nevertheless Jarno being higher up than he should have been. Always wondered what would have happened if he got to drive the 2005/2006 Renault - suspect he might have had quite a few poles but could he have hung onto them with a decent car underneath him? Or was he truly (no pun intended) just no good in the race and Fernando would have him every time?
The proof for Russell will come when he gets to drive a car that deserves to be at the front. In the one example we’ve had of that, he pulled away and was very comfortable out front, so I suspect he’ll be ok. It may also depend it next year’s tyres allow drivers to push like quali throughout a stint.
