McG wrote: ↑05 Jul 2022, 01:06
Are runningmanz and djos the same person with 2 accounts. Same walls of text making excuses for Ricciardo race after race. There was a user before that did this to get positive ratings and got caught.
10 races done 12 to go.
Norris 58 points, 7th in championship.
Ricciardo 15 points, 14th in championship.
McLaren need another top driver in the other car, not to baby Ricciardo until the end of his career.
Nope, but I notice you are pretty much the most antagonistic poster in this thread. Give it a rest and stop making every post about some sort of pissing contest. We are pretty much just taking the same constructive line as the team with him and not ignorantly posting the scoreboard every other post without taking a deep look at actually what occurs race by race. What you call excuses a logical person calls an explanation or are you saying the team are full of excuses seeing as you seem to know more than them. The bulk of those points difference came in one race anyway when Dan was arguably faster than Lando and got shafted in Q3 at Imola with the red flags one of which was caused by Lando putting the car in the fence. Dan made a small mistake touching the kerb and rubbing wheels with Sainz in the race, pretty unlucky with the outcome if you watch the replay closely where he got boxed in running into T1.
Even a 5 year old kid can post the scoreboard and come up with borderline trolling sentences.
Dan has two decent races before this so its not a clear regression certainly not with what transpired which many just blindly ignore and only look at the end result, which is pretty daft and lazy imo. The changing weather conditions with the heavier rain in Q2 which James Key mentioned in the post qualli press release affected him making Q3.
" Daniel’s run in Q2 was a victim of circumstance and the changing conditions. The track was getting slower as more rain fell throughout the session and effectively fixed the order at an early stage. I have little doubt that Daniel would be much higher up the order if the conditions had remained constant. It’s a real shame, but we know he will fight to score points tomorrow."
https://www.mclaren.com/racing/2022/bri ... ualifying/
If you believe differently you are basically saying you know more than the team which has all the data available unlike the armchair critics. The race its clear when you watch the live timing and live race positions he was stuck in a DRS train from lap 2 until 21 behind Bottas with the first silly pitstop putting him on hards and then came out behind Schumi and KMag and was in a train behind them until his DRS failed on lap 31. Its not hard to see and certainly doesn't warrant this ignorant 'its all Dans fault' nonsense many are posting. He had no realistic chance at points given the failed DRS and extra pitstop not to mention two +4 sec pitstops.
Yeah Dan does need to improve which he had the last two races and especially qualli better to put him clear of alot of problems but it wasn't exactly a straightforward weekend for him (not many have, nor have they been just him apparently performing poorly each time) here at all to be fair, nor is it black and white with the scoreboard. I'd say the bigger problem at the moment is the brick of a car and the team dropping the ball with pit strategies (for both guys) like they have done in the last 3 races and mechanical issues like the overheating brakes at the end of Canada or the stuck DRS Dan had this race.
