Re: They say, "Red Bull closing in on Liam Lawson swap with Yuki Tsunoda"

pP85PrR <darryl_johnson@rogers.com> wrote:

 
As has been mentioned before, Tsunoda was barely better than Lawson when
they were teammates. Any hope that he will pull some performance out of
the bag at Red Bull is surely faint.
 
Max has managed to deal with the Red Bull car as well as he has because
-- and I hate to admit it -- he is a far better driver than most of the
field, and certainly better than Perez, Lawson or Tsunoda.
 
One might even suggest that for anyone other than Max, getting a seat in
the Red Bull car is a career kiss of death.

Max *is* a better driver than most of the field, but at this stage it
looks like the RB is very much a handful. The number who have tried and
failed to wrestle with recent cars strongly suggest it's not simply
underperformance by drivers. The fact that Max handles it better further
suggests that - in addition to his superior skill - it's more suited
(maybe even tailored) to his driving style, particularly the fact he
likes the front-end quite unstable.

The question is, are RB following such an extreme design philosophy that
while they're putting Max into a great position for the WDC, are they
making it almost impossible for the second driver making the WCC much
harder?

I think it takes a brave driver to get into that seat right now; while
it's clearly a car with the potential to win races, I think

    1. You are almost certainly not going to win on a day that Max
       doesn't have issues.
    2. You have a better-than-even chance that you'll underperform in
       the car, and it could be career-ending.