Now, now.... Who ever called Smedley a "top engineer"?? He lost at Ferrari, badly, then at Williams, badly.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑04 Nov 2021, 10:48What has Smedley's nationality got to do with anything? If he's a top engineer then he's a top engineer. Or is this one of those "he's British and therefore hates Max and RedBull" things?Dee wrote: ↑04 Nov 2021, 09:28Let's clear it up a bit.
"Below is an excerpt from an interview with one of the best BRITISH engineers in the sport in recent years, Rob Smedley"
Biased because he says that RB failed to capitalise on their car this year and saying "If you take the races where he (Max) hasn’t finished, it might not be a net 50 points compared to Lewis, but it’s certainly quite a few points that he’s given away"
Completely wrong. Max has not given away anything, points have been taken away from him in Baku, Hungary through no fault of his own and what have RB failed to capitalise on this year? They have been brilliant strategically.
If you are going to quote Rob, I will link this article https://the-race.com/formula-1/gary-and ... tle-fight/ as my evidence for RB being the slight underdog so far.
And you think he's biased because you don't agree with his opinion. You like Anderson's opinion because it agrees with yours. It's not Smedley that's showing bias here.
Smedley has given his opinion based on what he has seen / heard. He's got a lot of experience in recent/current F1 and is involved in the data analysis for the Formula One Group so he's certainly got access to way more real data than any of us. But he was just giving his opinion on which car he would rather have at this point because he thinks it's the best car. Anderson thinks RedBull are underdogs and that suits your preference for Max being the great underdog champion taking his car to wins and titles it couldn't achieve otherwise because he's the best driver on the grid. That's cool, but don't accuse Smedley of being biased just because you don't like his opinion. That's not cool. And neither is accusing him of nationalist bias, either.
I rate him slightly above Claire Williams.