Big Tea wrote: ↑12 Jun 2022, 17:44
Gillian wrote: ↑12 Jun 2022, 16:58
Big Tea wrote: ↑12 Jun 2022, 16:45
Max has not really had a good measure until now. Not saying the other driver has been inferior, but they have not been happy with the car and Max has. Now both are happy with the car it is easier to make a comparison.
I think most weeks Quali could go either way, but it would have to be 70/30 to Max on Sunday.
That's unfair isn't it? Verstappen is not happy with the car at this moment, but he still beats his teammate. So if you're going to disregard former results because the other drivers where unhappy (ofcourse they where, they where loosing big time), then why is a comparison right now fair? You either look at all the data or not.
We'll see what happens when the front is responsive again.
When I say Max is not unhappy with the car I have no doubt he would like it more to his liking, but I am comparing to the previous car where both Albon and Gasly found it almost undrivable. No doubt Max was not 100% happy with it himself, but one of his skills seems to be that he is able to drive anything and get a decent drive out of it.
It is comparative, but to match him V the two above, even though they seem good drivers is still not a fair comparison, not due to Max failings, but to his ability to get around it.
I understand what you mean and I think it's not a fair comparison. For all we know the car right now is perfect for Perez and absolutely terrible for Verstappen. Sure it's not that dramatic but maybe it wasn't either when he was driving against Albon and Gasly. I don't like 'cherrypicked' comparisons, it's always unfair imo.
If you look at the qualifying stats between this year and last year:
2021
Verstappen beat Perez 20 out of 21 with average of 0.525 gap.
2022
Verstappen beat Perez 5 out of 8 with average of 0.145ms gap.
There's 2 ways to look at that:
- Perez has improved and now is close to Verstappen.
- Verstappen is qualifying worse than in 2021.
The media has chosen option A and is hyping up Perez (Perez 2.0!?).
Looking at the actual qualifying footage, Verstappen's comments and how the races unfold I'd say the latter.
Seems to me Perez is taking a lot of risk during qualifying to get in front of Verstappen and Verstappen is taking it a little easier because the car is just not there yet for him.
Hence my comments that it's unfair to disregard all the years of team mate domination and to focus on these 8 races so far, as if only those races are a good measure of driver performance.
If anything I'd say the opposite: Perez having a car to his liking driving balls to the wall still gets out-qualified by 0.145 on average and is literally no match over a race distance.
