Ryar wrote: ↑04 Jul 2021, 16:57
I wonder what is the point of paying 30-40 million dollars to any driver, if those missing 2 tenths of car were not brought to the table by that driver. If it is acceptable to have so many errors in a competitive season, minus those extra few tenths,
then why not another young talent with far lesser money can drive the same car? For sure, someone like Norris and Russel can easily be ahead of Bottas by considerable margin, who is the lower denominator to refer to.
Lots of teams have tried this over the years. Jaguar with Webber and Pizzonia, Toro Rosso with many of their driver lineups.
It usually doesn't work that great in reality to have 2 x cheap rookie drivers (or just 2 x cheap drivers) for a variety of reasons -- the rookie drivers are usually very inconsistent, and if a driver proves to be at least upper midfield level they will soon demand a $10m+ USD salary (like say Hulkenberg).
HAAS had two drivers which were perhaps more lower midfield level on $1-3m salaries, Magnussen and Grosjean, and that never worked particularly well for them.