Vettel165 wrote: ↑20 Mar 2026, 22:36
You will see how strong this car will be with some new updates and weight near a normal level. A lot of potential, its just a matter of time dont worry. The team will be back.
I doubt it. The RB board don't want it. They don't want to win, they think it's a bad thing. They look at their past successes in F1 with contempt, because they're ashamed of the people associated with it. Horner, Newey, Marko, Verstappen, maybe even Mateschitz himself. Once Mateschitz was gone, there was nothing to prevent RB from becoming any other globalized corporation.
The RB board and maybe even some fraction of RBR management do not want to win races. They want to look good in the office as they stare at each other. They want to look good on LinkedIn. They want to look good in the eyes of corrupt governments.
Common corporate progression. A founder leaves, then it's crabs in a barrel, and all that's left for oneupmanship within the contemporary corporate world is virtue-signalling by people who are not virtuous themselves. Horner in such a context would have been an easy target--and apparently was. The spiral must continue though, as RB corporate becomes another faceless globalized organization within the still-stumbling-along pomo economic order, a process which will fracture the remaining old-guard of RBR even if that encompasses 90% of the staff. It's trickling down. The livery is a bit random this year although still good, but the team kit looks atrocious. Blue on blue can be done, but they bottled it and it looks amateur.
I think RBR the team did send out Mateschitz in the grandest fashion that they could, while they could. Completing the most dominant car performance and most dominant driver performance in Formula One history. "Goodbye, brother." The MP4/4 was only similarly, although slightly less, dominant because it had two good drivers each bringing home half of its total victories. Incredible to think that amidst 2023, there was a growing faction with RB that was essentially thinking, "They're doing it wrong." So the demolition began. RBR would be transformed into something more resembling of the wannabes and no-names who took the helm of RB corporate. Various external parties would also have had an interest in this. Ultimately it was all a relatively easy process for the board, as all the big names at RBR were only employees. All they had to do was fire and hire.
