Waz wrote: ↑02 Dec 2024, 07:23
I don't understand the attitude of Lewis just checking out. The car has been capable of racing near the front and fighting for podiums all season. That's all he's getting at Ferrari next year too, so this idea that he will be rejuvenated seems more like wishful thinking or deflection.
Mercedes are lucky that Russell is such a scrapper, like a little mongrel fighting off a bigger dog.
I think it's more like he's probably just tired of all the political bull that comes with leaving a team.
-Impossible to gain no.1 status.
-Even if you are able to get ahead in the standings, you'll never feel like that's where the team wants you to be, for their own obvious reasons.
-Unable to have as much of a say in areas he could be instrumental before.
-Team will never develop the car around driver who is not going to be driving it.
-The feel of effectively spending the entire year as a Ferrari driver while still being at Merc.
-Being understandably excused from important/sensitive discussions and meetings about the workings of the car for this year, next year, definitely 2026 and forevermore.
-BS like having multiple pit lane starts from mechanics accidentally not building his suspension parts correctly, the Singapore GP start where he inexplicably was put onto the tyre nobody wanted/used and which he asked not to be on, tyre temps not being right out of the blankets, kept in the dark about George's one stop at Spa (mentioning after that he's supposed to be able to trust his strategists).
-Not being able to really say much of what he actually thinks when asked week after week about what he feels is his problem
It's probably just a shitty situation all round, probably been like that for the entire year and he's just tired of it all now.
