This reminds me of the old days in RC and all the Villeneuve & Schumacher fans squabbling! 
Except at least they were World Champions...
Some of you Ozzie's need to get a little perspective.
DR was never going to be a WC. And for that matter neither was Webber. Pastri though may be the real deal.
E. Watching DR claw his way back to a Red Bull seat after his his rather childish departure from that same team is frankly cringe worthy. He made his own bed.
Hey Ozzie is an Ostrich on a variety show, it’s Aussie. S are Z we utiliSe S the way the mother ship does.
Webber had a shot, he was in the running until a late season mistake. He wasn’t good enough, he was very much in reach of one, at the time I didn’t think he would but acknowledged he could.
DR clearly had potential his break out season was as good it gets if ramping up to a real WDC run, his soul was destroyed by a perception that led him astray. He would never win a WDC with Max in the team, he isn’t good enough. I really think Webber had a role to play, I guarantee listening to how Webber talks about a career he would have been in Daniel’s ear, cut your loses the decision is made, Webber does hold grudges.
I know you usually like robust conversation so here is my take on Daniel in the new era. He didn’t deal well with whatever McLaren was doing with its car in 2021, ok thats a problem he needs to fix. But what was it, feel? Anyway to 2022 and you would think that with a different concept the issues might be engineered out. There is new problem though, the anti-geometry some teams needed to control the floor directly impacts drivers feel with 100 percent anti geometry making a car difficult to feel at all. Generally ground effect cars need in order of 80 percent anti geometry and above.
Lewis Hamilton was affected by this as the Mercedes floor needed a higher ratio, the more powerful your floor the more finite control you need. If you loosen the car up to give the driver feedback and the geometry cant keep the floor in its working zone it will be inconsistent including bouncing. Mercedes messed with their concept to at least give the drivers something to work with, you would see Lewis hunt around for a setup as is his way. Then revert to something known as workable enough but they were trying everything to get it working with the as built concept.
So why would Daniel be lost, well McLaren weren’t exactly completely understanding the problem either but their fix may have just been to up the ratio, Lando could deal with it DR couldn’t. I think a few drivers struggle with it DR, Perez, Stroll and Lewis somewhat but he is so good he can work around it often enough and he had a fundamental car problem to deal with.
What could RB see with DR, well they could literally see the garden path teams went down by the way he was trying to drive the car, they stated this. Well they know the anti-geometry code and I suspect all the teams do now, McLaren worked it out last year. I think thats a plausible theory for some of the odd stuff. He seems to be driving better now, WDC material. Not now unless Netflix commands it.
Piastri? I dunno, hope he goes well, he seems ok with a good head. Other than that he hasn’t done much, I have a feeling he ain’t the one either but you never know.
Would I use the above as a complete argument for why, nope. Would any of that if approximately around the problem change much of the future. Not for DR it wont he is done, he was done when he left RB less getting a gift somewhere else.
I did get the old RC vibes but back then we were allowed to bring spiked bats we just couldn’t go full Planet F1 in the village. I like paddock club brutality as a rule but I will pop my hand up and admit I got way too attached to some silly hills to die on in old RC before the public liability police had their say. Yeah I was just completely lost in a bias, I am sure it serves some rule of biological evolution in a group. I dunno…..
Anyway mate I got bored too ;)
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