Driver Management...this. Other than Verstapen what has the RBR driver program produced in the last 8 or so years? One Gasly win is all I can think of. Why isn't Helmut Marko's seat white hot? When you talk about under performing at Red Bull, Marko has to be in the conversation.
How long can this go on before it comes out that they're not even close to being equal cars?
I'm seriously struggling to see how so many can be that far away.
Max is a generational talent no doubt, but no driver is that far above so many others.
Not Max, not Lewis, not Clark, not Fangio, no one.
I'm just genuinely at a loss at this point and grasping at straws to explain it, it's basically unique in almost all of racing to have such a massive discrepancy.
This reminds me of Honda in MotoGP. Marc Márquez won the 2019 title with an iron fist, but his teammate, Jorge Lorenzo, legendary rider, finished like 19. It's true that the other two satellite Hondas weren't *that* bad, but still. An extremely critical machine that only a chosen few can make work.
This came back to bite Honda in the ass extremely hard when Márquez was seriously injured, leaving them without their chosen one, and thus nowhere to be found. And still to this day they have the worst bike and the worst factory team in terms of performance. All while Márquez wins on a Ducati.
Same. Even though the Alpine sucks most of the time, I'm glad Pierre got out and also glad Alex got out.
Daniel is an idiot because he got out and then spent half his time trying to get back in.
It would be much the same as Yuki. Lawson's issue is not that the car is fundamentally slow, it's that he doesn't trust either himself to catch a snap, or the car not to try and send him to the shadow realm. His inputs are the same as when I play a sim with no TC for the first time in a while.
Even late 90s/early00s Ferrari which clearly favoured Schumacher and compromised his team mates even had Irvine and Barrichello putting in wins and (when Schumacher was injured) even a championship challenge - and I don't think anyone could say either were generational talents!
Gasly, Sainz, Albon (and even JEV, Da Costa, Cassidy etc) have all proven than the Red Bull Drivers Academy produces drivers better than a 2009 Luca Badoer too.
So...I'm going to go out on a ledge here and say it's not the drivers fault(s), not so much VER's "fault", BUT which drivers RB hires, who hires them and what internal process they have surrounding it all. And here accommodating a specific driver might play a part...
the fact that their 2 most successful drivers weren't part of their junior program and were essentially signed straight into toero rosso is pretty damning too
I am also questioning their car design, they have continued to design cars that are so tricky to drive. Yes it has been the fastest till recently but when only one of your drivers can drive it it is problem especially when you had 4 different drivers in the second seat in 6 years
Replacing your driver after two races without any injury has to be a record. Not even Doohan (who also had a disastrous weekend) has that short of a leash.
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If not an at this rate by Abu Dhabi all the 18+ F2 drivers will have been dropped after a couple of races.
I'm seriously struggling to see how so many can be that far away.
Max is a generational talent no doubt, but no driver is that far above so many others.
Not Max, not Lewis, not Clark, not Fangio, no one.
I'm just genuinely at a loss at this point and grasping at straws to explain it, it's basically unique in almost all of racing to have such a massive discrepancy.
Daniel is an idiot because he got out and then spent half his time trying to get back in.