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It seems Albon was used as a guinea pig by Red Bull. It did make his job that much harder
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Max knew that he would come out behind one or two cars on tyres that were at the absolute end of their life. Albon was on the hardest tyre and put out in the middle of the frantic midfield battle with cars who still had tyre life left. Ferrari often get a hard time on here for their strategy, but with hindsight RBR's strategy for Albon here was terrible.
Albon is clearly nowhere near the pace of his teammate, and is struggling in qualy - it is therefore very important that he gets much help as he can, and that is not what he got in this race. RBR seem to be in a mess. They are the only team with a car that can come anywhere near the Mercedes. Yet since Ricciardo left they only have one driver in the reckoning,with all 3 of the replacements not performing at all well. Ricciardo would be in the mix if he was still there, taking points of Mercedes and running close enough to put pressure on. |
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I can understand using your 2nd driver to test out the effectiveness of a one stopper particularly when wins are so hard to come by.
What i dont get is why, after realizing the hards would not work and after Max had stopped more that once, why they kept Albon on the hards. Maybe i missed something else, did doze off, but did he run out of fresh tires? Was there an issue with his car? With 20 odd laps to go could Albon have not stopped again for better rubber? |
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He only had one set of new mediums left.
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Thanks.
With the time taken to stop again, he probably wouldnt have helped him get much higher that 8th anyways. might have caught Vettel but then Ferrari might have covered. Maybe it was worth the expirment then. All Albon lost was a couple of spots and the gain, if the one stopper worked, could have been a win for Max. |
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Maybe so, as we know hindsight is a wonderful thing. Sometimes it’s worth trying a different strategy. However it hasn’t made things easier for Alex
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I think he will, the team is built around Max - the No2 is there to pick up WCC points or be there for a podium if the Mercs and Max retire. Gasly has done much better awat for the RBR pressure cooker at AT. No one will do significantly better at Red Bull in the 2nd seat, I can't see them putting a top liner in there alongside max which will only de-stabalise the team.
As long as he picks up good points, he will be fine IMO. |
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Just my opinion and one no doubt painted by cynisim...
But not expecting much from Alonso and lost faith with Ric. Maybe Alonso surprises but i squarely expect Norris to clean Ric's clock next year. I should probably say i will eat my hat if otherwise. |
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I guess its a few things but mainly because Ric does not seem to be dragging his useless team forward at all.
i think a couple of dire seasons in a manu built car with no results at all point towards him being a quality journeyman and we only seem to see him now at the end of races sparing with Stroll while Lando passes both of them (with the same engine as Ric has). All speculation of course. |
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On Ricciardo - I think that the struggles of all the young hotshots that RBR have put into his old seat have only enhanced my view of how well Ricciardo was actually doing against Verstappen. Since leaving RBR, he has outperformed both his teammates. I do slightly question his choice of joining Renault, but perhaps McLaren next year will be a better choice.
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In my view Ricciardo is at least as good as Nico Rosberg was. Maybe not quite on a par with the likes of Hamilton, Verstappen and Leclerc, but good enough to beat them more than occasionslly
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If Red Bull fires Albon, who are they hiring? Tsunoda?
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Insufficient superlicense points for Tsunoda at the moment. In fact, I’m not sure if he even has any?
This is where Red Bull fall down, as they actually don’t have anyone coming through. Neither Vips or Daruvala could get a superlicence at this stage, so to replace Albon they could only promote from Alpha Tauri or sign someone outside of the Red Bull “pool” |
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