mwillems wrote: ↑29 Oct 2023, 01:35
Ben1980 wrote: ↑29 Oct 2023, 01:29
I really don't care for next season, I'm not basing anything on next season. That's just guesswork.
Obviously if he is in a tight battles and makes too many mistakes it will impact his points total. But, next year, Mercedes may improve, Ferrari may improve. Its not beyond tge realm of possibilities. We aren't far and away better than them both as it is.
All I'm saying is, while lando hasn't been perfect, he has been consistently very good. Maybe he needs to better to win, maybe he will be, maybe not. No idea.
Just celebrate what he has achieved, which is basically 2nd best since Austria. He's been pretty good.
There's no guesswork involved. Getting the most out of the car is relative and we don't need to know what the car does next year, just that the main driver is struggling to do so now in Qualy.
I celebrate what he has achieved also, I can do that and notice where he struggles too, like everyone does with the car when talking about work to do on low speed corners. Lando is not a protected species and is here to be looked at with an open mind as is everything else in F1.
I may be mistaken but it seems that your responses are more about just ignoring faults and risks because he's good at something else (Race pace), ignoring mistakes because the car has had an upturn, and ignoring the fact that he needs to be good at all the stuff to win the title (Because he might not get the chance), and ignoring the fact that it could be very close to being a title winning car (Because we don't know), because the team have improved massively and we're all on a high right now so why care if anything that isn't working right now might hold us back in the future if we have a good car... If we don't know how good the car might be next year, why care? Hmm, we can agree to disagree at this point.
But, he's not struggling in qualifying that's my point. Look at his positions. Yep, he had issues in Qatar, and yesterday. But to say he is struggling is well wide of the mark.
And, I'm not ignoring anything, he has a history of getting the best out of the car in qualifying this year and previous year.
Will he need to do better, if he has a race winning car, and a title challenger? For sure, would I expect him to? No idea. You don't know how someone reacts if in a title fight.
Next season is a different thing, I hope we are challenging a bit more for wins, and that brings more pressure, be interesting to see how both cope with it.