Ocon and Gasly are much more evenly matched than Verstappen and Ocon/Gasly. It'll hardly matter. Verstappen is too consistent to keep dropping points or even being close to Ocon regularly. At least he is as close to a robot can get in terms of results maximization.DDopey wrote: ↑24 Nov 2024, 16:15It would not cancel out but add up. We have seen that with Ocon/Gasly.venkyhere wrote: ↑24 Nov 2024, 14:52IMHO, Ocon could have been a good 2nd driver to Max (despite that famous Brazil 2018 scuffle). Max has enough 'dirty driver' in him to combat the 'dirty driver' in Ocon. So that cancels out. Apart from that, Ocon is excellent at wheel-to-wheel combat (isn't afraid to stick his nose in) who can take the fight to the competition and hold his place. Most importantly he isn't a 'tentative' driver like Perez (who shows in 1/20 races that he used to be a quick driver) and will commit to a 'move' in the race.f1isgood wrote: ↑24 Nov 2024, 13:07Ferrari fans prefer Leclerc and clearly see Sainz as a threat enough to spout enough nonsense about him. It's the same context with other drivers and their teammates. If the teammate is threatening enough, you'll get all kinds of stories. From car development to politics to being nice, anything and everything is a conspiracy.
In the context of Red Bull, as far as I am concerned, Max will be comfortable in making Carlos a proper second driver with a bigger margin than Leclerc.
Red Bull having gone through an internal rift within their ranks probably didn't want one between Jos and Sainz Sr, and the former is extremely abrasive no doubt -- still can't look past his Red Bull will explode comments earlier this year.
Personally Sainz was a great option that Red Bull really shouldn't have missed out on. Horner knew Piastri well before and dropped the ball on him last year -- that's the other big missed option. It was clear Perez wasn't going to be good enough long term -- so that extension before the Monaco 2022 crash and win was really weird, and the latest one as well.
Just go for Tsunoda on a one year RBR drive, whilst evaluating Lawson vs Hadjar IMO.
Lawsonvenkyhere wrote: ↑05 Nov 2024, 06:00Lawsonvenkyhere wrote: ↑21 Oct 2024, 11:07ispano6 wrote: ↑14 Oct 2024, 05:14
Ignore him. He says Tsunoda plateaud where as in truth Liam was over aggressive against Yuki and didn't allow his teammate to take him out. Liam isn't afraid to take out Yuki so Yuki must be smart and make Liam take himself out. Liam has had plenty of time to study Yuki and he has driven the RB20 so he has no excuses to be slow against Yuki.There is no experience like the experience from racing at highest level.
Anyway,
hoping to keep this sub-thread active until end of season with a scoreboard, starting from Texas GP :
Lawson +2 (started 19th and finished 9th)
Tsunoda 0 (started 10th and finished 14th)
5 more to go.
COTA : +2
Mexico: 0
Brazil: +2
Tsunoda
COTA : 0
Mexico: DNF (no fault of his)
Brazil: +6
3 more to go.
Yuki is untouchable in the desert ,he has a thing for tilke like designed tracks,but anywhere they have already chosen perez .the noise is just about publicity really.redbull has an adversarial relationship with yuki if one of their driver's beat yuki for some reason they celebrate and undermine yuki.if yuki beat his opponent they dismiss it as mere experience.they send drivers to their junior team to beat yuki and put him in his proper place,that just not a healthy work partnership .venkyhere wrote: ↑24 Nov 2024, 18:19Lawsonvenkyhere wrote: ↑05 Nov 2024, 06:00Lawsonvenkyhere wrote: ↑21 Oct 2024, 11:07
There is no experience like the experience from racing at highest level.
Anyway,
hoping to keep this sub-thread active until end of season with a scoreboard, starting from Texas GP :
Lawson +2 (started 19th and finished 9th)
Tsunoda 0 (started 10th and finished 14th)
5 more to go.
COTA : +2
Mexico: 0
Brazil: +2
Tsunoda
COTA : 0
Mexico: DNF (no fault of his)
Brazil: +6
3 more to go.
COTA : +2
Mexico: 0
Brazil: +2
Vegas: 0
Tsunoda
COTA : 0
Mexico: DNF (no fault of his)
Brazil: +6
Vegas: +2
2 more to go.
Though I like Lawson more for the Redbull seat (a proper fighter type driver), data says Tsunoda is the guy (more finesse and craft from more experience). Anyway, planning to keep totting up this table until after the last race. Let's see what Marko decides.