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Originally Posted by p-matt
If there's one thing Sorensen didn't have it's luck!! Was it two wins he lost due to late race retirements?
To be fair, I don't think we saw enough to judge Sorensen vs Stanaway. But the little we did see Sorensen clearly had the edge.
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exactly! crikey razzzor, fair play to you for doing your stat homework but marco was painfully unlucky. richie was unfortunate, but a lot of it was stemming from his own mistakes. there were guys who had even worse starts to the season but who handled it far, far better.
if we're going to pick it apart, richie stalled on the grid and got hit by venturini. unfortunate, it happened to quite a few drivers throughout the season though. in the second race at motorland he had a pretty good race - though iirc it was that one that sorensen was leading and lost to a mechanical issue. at monaco richie binned it on his outlap in practice - that was unbelievably daft, but reasonably characteristic of his shortcomings in that the need to get times in and make use of a clear track got in the way of being sensible and whatnot. in the race his throttle stuck open and he shunted at exactly the same corner, on the other side of the track. at spa in race 1 qualifying he threw it off again, and got wheeled off the starting grid. then in race 2 he had his shunt. that's from memory so it might be a bit rusty.
stanaway will just rag the daylights out of a car, he really does have extraordinary pace, whereas sorensen is a lot more, um.... thoughtful in his approach and was more methodical with his engineer than stanaway. they were chalk and cheese, which was what made their similar pace all that much more fascinating.
as for hartley... i think he reached as far as his abilities would take him, iirc his average performance was fairly uninteresting. i think he was a textbook example of when and why red bull kick drivers out - if you can't produce the results then you're not going to be a successful racing driver no matter what. yeah, ok, ricciardo had a wobbly season in the year he was with isr, but he was racing for hrt in f1 at the same time.