organic wrote: ↑27 Aug 2023, 02:42
Always some other explanations
it's great to hear the justifications and mental gymnastics some will do to attempt to discredit
It's somewhat amusing to see even the establishment try and hint at untoward activities by RB.
Toto Wolff called the gap to Perez "odd".
And Wolff cannot fathom how a multi-time grand prix winner in Perez can be so far adrift of Verstappen when driving the same Red Bull RB19.
“Odd, bizarre,” said Wolff of that gap when speaking to media including PlanetF1.com following qualifying.
“We’ve seen that Max has destroyed every single team-mate that was with him, whether it’s his ability to create a car around himself, that is just very tricky to control but fast if you can, and that creates those gaps, the 1.3.
“Checo’s not an idiot. We have seen in all these years Checo is a grand prix winner, multiple grand prix winner, and he was at Racing Point, so I cannot comprehend [it].
At the 2020 Styrian GP when Hamilton put a 1.5 seconds gap between himself and Bottas in damp conditions, Toto simply called it "out of this world" and praised Hamilton. He didn't say it was odd, or that Hamilton had built the car around himself...
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-moto ... KKCN24C0QC
Verstappen's form has done untold amounts of damage to the opposition...They've lost their sense of up from down. In many respects, the quality of commentary reflects the level of success and discontent with that success.
A lion must kill its prey.