1m0bius1 wrote: ↑06 Jun 2022, 10:53
I think its a disgrace to hire a driver and not cater to his driving style through aero philosiphy especially after feedback that he would not be able to perform with that philosiphy
Mclaren basically circlejerked Daniel to get his signature. Monaco where he has been so strong since the start of his career. He is nowhere. That just tells you all you to know. When Daniel is struggling at Monaco where is normally a monster, the car is not going to suit him and he isnt going to adapt to this rather bizarre car philopisiphy. 50m on a driver to not cater to what he needs is a complete waste of time and resources on both sides. Renault was able to do this within 1 season.
Sainz got destroyed by Hulkenberg yet Daniel beat him comfortable at the first time at asking. Why is Mclaren so solidified on this failure of a car philosiphy just to cater to Lando. Makes little sense. Its got them nowhere near the front. I hope Audi buy out this garbage and clean out the technical team. 1 Second gap to the lead car is a Joke.
Daniel struggling at Monaco was so hard to watch. He is normally a top top driver there.
You said it is a disgrace that McLaren haven't "catered" to Daniel's driving style and that the car philosophy is bizarre. Hmmm those beleifs has some weak points in this specific case.
The thing is, Daniel was rated very highly. His name was mentioned with Lewis, Nico, and Alonso from 2014 to 2018. He was the hottest property at the time and he was paid handsomely to bring race winning experience and skill to a refreshed McLaren.
So Daniel's primary role as lead driver was to work with the engineers to find which set up path the car must take to make it faster. I would suggest there are three optimal paths: one for the race, one for qualifying and one that is the best compromise between the two. But it seems Daniel didn't realise that the fastest direction does not always go hand in hand with his specific driving style; it is his job to drive whatever beast he is given as fast as it can physically go and tell the engineers where the setup can be tweaked to make it faster over the race or over one lap regardless of whether the car handles to his preferences or not.
I can only guess that the problem he finds himself in, is that when he claims the direction is wrong because the car handles weirdly to him, there is Norris with an even more unstable car, four tenths up the road. Daniel then might try, in an unabashed way, to prove that when the car is set up to drive how he likes it then he can be even fatser than Norris with better tyre life to boot! And he tries and tries and tries, with great inensity and seriousness, and the car is even slower than before! It simply cannot be driven at it's limits when it is driven the way he likes.
So it ends up that Daniel has no choice but to drive it the way Norris has found. But I guess Daniel cannot tap into those unactivated neural connections that he has never used before in his life. It could be a certain way of seeing, processing and moving the muscles - this Daniel can learn relatively quickly through practice, or it could a myriad of ways and adjustments that change dynamically with conditions - that requires shifting the registers of different neural networks of the brain in milliseconds - now this is not something you can learn overnight, and this is why he is seemingly stuck, he never had to do this with the lively but telepathic RedBulls he had before.
