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I think you tell a story to fit your narrative but it doesn't really follow reality. Verstappen was open about the problems with the car for a long time, it was in fact him who said that some people on the technical side were ignoring the extent of the car issues. He was pushing for change publicly long before RB themselves admitted there was an issue with the concept. He was absolutely not okay with it.ringo wrote: ↑05 Mar 2025, 19:10They wont slow him down. I think his side of the garage just wont be allowed to outsmart the other side. Be that with tyre prep, hiding aces for Liam to use in Q3, or strategy.
If Liam sees a development path, it just wont be entertained.
Redbull did this last year. Newey revealed this.
Perez from his experience knew the car wasn't right. The team didn't really put resources into pursuing these concerns. So it's not a case from slowing down one guy, it's more like not providing the resources to making him faster. Because why make him get closer to the #1?
The drawback of this approach is it puts all the eggs in one basket and that development path may not be the best.
Teams like ferrari and mercedes split the proirities between the two drivers. So that yeilds more relevant data and reduces the risk of the the development direction.
Max was driving the car that was given and continued down a path that did make him much faster than Perez. So that was okay to him.
However it was making an issue worse that he soon detected many races down into the season.
Liam's addition should make things interesting. He is younger than Max, and not set in any mold like a Perez, a Hulk, Ricciardo. He will work with what the team gives him, but his outspoken personality may at some point find issue with his ideas not being given priority.
I think Max beats him handily. But Liam may outqualify max 1 to 3 times. He should have a lot of raw pace and energy at 22 years old. I expect a few wtf! moments as well between the two on track especially of Liam on a different strategy not moving out of the way of Max or even on a lap 1 start where he could get a better launch but doesnt want to give Max room to get ahead and build a gap.
Tsunoda may get a surprice appearance if Liam goes rogue.
No secrets in the RB garage. Remember Perez appreciating the open acces to Max his data?ringo wrote: ↑05 Mar 2025, 19:10They wont slow him down. I think his side of the garage just wont be allowed to outsmart the other side. Be that with tyre prep, hiding aces for Liam to use in Q3, or strategy.
If Liam sees a development path, it just wont be entertained
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Melbourne might be wet actually.
That's a wrong conclusion. It should be; why spend resources to make the car easier to drive when this will also mean the car will become slower. So the result will that the championship leader, who doesn't have problem with the car will get a slower car so that the number 6 in the championship will have less trouble with the car? Do you want to trade a 1st and 6th position for a 2nd and 3rd (at best)?ringo wrote: ↑05 Mar 2025, 19:10Redbull did this last year. Newey revealed this.
Perez from his experience knew the car wasn't right. The team didn't really put resources into pursuing these concerns. So it's not a case from slowing down one guy, it's more like not providing the resources to making him faster. Because why make him get closer to the #1?
The drawback of this approach is it puts all the eggs in one basket and that development path may not be the best.
Teams like ferrari and mercedes split the proirities between the two drivers. So that yeilds more relevant data and reduces the risk of the the development direction....
Yes, a team would (and should) prefer that tradeoff because statistically, that would earn the team what ALL teams truly covet: The WCC. All things being equal, 1st + 6th in points is smaller than 2nd + 3rd, no?
If this guy is being truthful, 2025 will be worse than 2024 and no chance for even WDC.But, having managed to right the ship during last season, how confident is Waché of having been able to figure out where the correlation issues stemmed from and, as a result, been able to compensate for them?
“I’m not confident,” he bluntly said.
“But, at some point, you have to use the tools you have and take all the information you can to make some decision.
“We still have, and I think everybody has… not correlation, but you need some extrapolation of what will happen in your tools to the track.
“It is a part of the engineering job we are doing. The confidence is, I don’t think it is 100 percent, but it is not a show stopper.
“You have to use what you know, what you control, and make sure that the extrapolation works as much as possible, and improve the way you operate in your tools.”
Only Qatar was had a positive swing compared to the year before. As mentioned by obbs, RB has a big mountain to climb for this season. The more i read the less confident i get about his season.
it couldn't rain 20 races sadly.