101FlyingDutchman wrote: ↑01 Jul 2021, 21:45
Strange reply from RIC. Almost saying/implying it’s up to the team to build a car based on his strengths. Rather than really knuckling down and learning/perfecting a different way to drive the current car he’s got.
I love the guy but to me he has the hallmarks of someone purely relying on his talent and not willing to turn every leaf and stone. Maybe that rumour from the Renault engineers is right…
What rumour from the Renault engineers?
Ric is constantly being asked questions in every interview about this?
My guess is he wants to say the car drives like a piece of crap but knowing Ric he wants to be positive and not trash the team or complain and be negative.
It is not so easy to completely change driving styles and adapt to a car.
Also the team needs to build a car that not just plays to Rics strengths but to everybodys strengths.
The Torro Rosso Ric always went backwards every race basically. He struggled.
Once in the Redbull in the 2009, 2010, 2013 tests he was smashing lap records and instantly comfortable.
Not to mention 2014 he smashed Vettel.
Ric adapted to 4 different redbulls instantly whereas never fully adapted in 2 years driving the torro Rosso to the same degree. Ric always went backwards in the Torro rosso whereas in Redbull always forward.
Why? because the Redbull back then drove perfect. Even Algashuari, Vergne everybody who drove it instantly was on it smashing lap records where they always struggled in Torro Rosso's as they were poor cars.
Look at Russell 2 years and always going backwards in the Williams on sundays and im sure he hates everything about the Williams but also tries to stay positive.
He jumps into the Merc without fitting in it and instantly in 1 lap he going forward driving like Schumacher or Ham overtaking Bottas twice. Russell looked like a racing God in 1 lap.
Russell could not stop praising the 2020 Merc saying it was perfect in every single way. It does whatever i want the car to do, fully comfortable.
Of course he would go back to the Williams and want the car built to the exact same specification of the Merc and im sure he requested those exact changes.
The same way Ric would have always requested the Torro Rosso , Mclaren and Renault have the same changes.
It makes perfect sense for Ric to demand the car be changed to be exactly like the Redbull was and Russell demand changes for the car to be exactly like the Merc.
Lando will also benefit from these changes. Ric also has stated many times him and Max want the same things from the car so if Max was driving the Mclaren or Renault her would also request basically the same changes,. So Ric does not want some strange setup. We have always heard of Schumachers and Alonsos team mates complaining they want a strange hard to drive setup. we never heard this from any of Rics team mates as yes even Hulk stated he wants the same changes to the Renault so we can be sure the changes Ric is requesting will benefit both drivers and not just Ric. Ric just wants a fast car for both drivers.
Ric just wants a perfect handling car like the redbull and with that he can fight for the championship. So can Lando.
Rusell also wants a perfect handling car like the Merc and not the Williams crap he driving now.
If he did Rusell could fight for the championship. Latifi would pick up some podiums sure and love the car
But again you cant say Russell wanting the Williams to behave like the 2020 Merc a weakness or something that will only benefit him and not Latifi.
Latifi would benefit in this case and so would Norris.
All drivers after tasting a perfect race car like Russell and Ric have will request those changes and the entire team will always benefit from this if implemented.
Ayrton Senna: Pure driving, pure racing, that´s what makes me happy.
