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Makes sense ... 85% of performance comes form de car, 10% the driver and 5% the team... In a sport where 1% matter, all parts should work together but I seems clear without the dominant car, Max would lose his god-like status
In the spots people tend to pay less attention to:
Yuki once again far outpaces Daniel...
What happened to Alpine? Are they the new Haas?
Agreed... Max wining or losing means nothing to me as a fan
He is looking good in quali!
Oh crap, how untimely for Carlos.... Hope he recovers fast and comes back to kick some ass... His more aggressive drive from last week was in my top 3 reasons for watching F1 this year
You misspelled "marketing"
Except you know, in real life
It's easy to say after the fact "bUt hE DidN'T PaSS hiM DiD hE?", but u gotta look from the perspective from the race engineers. Who is most likely to get a pass
To what end? A 13th instead of a 14th? There is no way Daniel could have reached Zhou anyway
Plus it never did look like Daniel could have passed Yuki without team orders... He didn't gain a single spot in 50 laps
Went looking for the dive bomb and found a video, definitely not professional from Yuki, although I understand his frustration... Yuki did not yield a spot in the entire race and only lost places due to bone headed pit stops... Daniel never gained a spot and he was then given the team order to take Yuki's spot for no real gain at all
Second funny tid bit... The next video suggested by YouTube was a celebratory compilation of Daniel dive bombing other drivers... I guess when you are popular in F1 anything you do is justified
Resisting is too strong a word imo... He called out how untimely it was, obeyed anyway and then complained about it since Daniel was indeed not faster ... That's standard behavior for an F1 driver
The only driver I have actually seen resisting was Max when he clung to a P6 to deny Checo a second spot in the drivers championship
Keep in mind Yuki's English is fairly limited and he comes across fairly harsh.... Plus he is a cursing monster hahaha
I didn't see nor heard commentary about the dive bomb so I can't really say much about that... In any case, it's clear RB does not care at all about Yuki, same as they didn't care about Albon or Gasly... With them, you could clearly see they gave up at some point and just shunned them... With Daniel, you can see how they are bending over backwards to give him another shot
Not sure what advantage he supposedly had, Daniel didn't come any closer to Kmag than Yuki... And then complained his tires magically stopped having said advantage because Yuki took half a lap to give the spot