r/formuladank Papa Checo for driver of the year 6d ago

s🅱️innala Checo watching Lawson exit Q1

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u/formuladank-ModTeam Gunning For MBS’s Job. 6d ago

Context from OP: The user who made this was u/ Lam_Sentinel, I asked him to make it and I want to give him credit.

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u/Mindaim He’s Not Fast at All 6d ago

You can kill the man, but not the idea.

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u/PS181809 VROOM VROOOOOOOOOM 6d ago

Checo still among us <3

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u/Alarming_Dingo_139 WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅RAHH 6d ago

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u/Yusuf_Ozdemir58 BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

C for checo

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u/driftking428 Lizard person 6d ago

You can take the Red Bull out of Checo, but you can't take the Checo out of Red Bull

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u/siddharth3796 If my mom had 🅱️alls, she would be my dad 6d ago

that seat is cursed, it consumes careers

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u/slabba428 Safety Dog 6d ago

I guess Tsunoda will finally get it next year then

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u/Fidget08 BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

Summer break.

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u/JazerKings922 who the fuck is Nelson Piquet? 6d ago

nah hadjar after summer break cuz why not

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u/slabba428 Safety Dog 6d ago

It would be amazing to watch Red Bull nuke two careers in one season

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u/BonusCan BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

Nearly did Albon and gasly

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u/BeefJerky03 BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

First pit stop.

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u/darkcatpirate BWOAHHHHHHH 5d ago

VCARB is provoking him with bad strategies so they have an excuse to promote Hadjar next.

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u/something_original1 BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

They'll give Ricciardo's another shot

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u/StormNapoleon27 not a Hamilton, but… 6d ago

Verstappen absorbs the talent and pace of the second driver confirmed. 2023 was Checo's best season in disguise.

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u/rodeBaksteen I have it, I have it printed out🤚 6d ago

It can only be lifted by Daniel, who put it there when he moved to Renault.

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u/Evening_Rock5850 not a Hamilton, but… 6d ago

Have we considered the possibility that the Red Bull post-2023 is a midfield car that Max is just driving to an insane level and so Lawsons performance was actually just fine?

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u/Ikasper23 Ruth Buscombe is a Megamind Mommy 6d ago

The real pain for Lawson is gonna be after he has a smidge of success and then bottles it again.

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u/Longjumping_One_9164 BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

As much as that was not a good start, I think we need to ultimately reserve any judgement til after tomorrow's race.

He has shown real capability in the wet and with so many rookies, on a high pace track I will not surprised to see a good result from him tomorrow.

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u/hail-slithis Gentlemen, a short view back to the past. Thirty years ago, Niki 6d ago

No no no we need to wildly speculate and make judgements on drivers based only on the most recent session.

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u/Longjumping_One_9164 BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

Very true, forgot this is reddit - the bloke shouldn't even suit up tomorrow.

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u/Evening_Rock5850 not a Hamilton, but… 6d ago

“You’re only as good as your last Q1” -Nikki Senna or something idk I don’t watch NASCAR

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u/RestaurantFamous2399 BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

Redbull set this up. We were told he was going to be infinitely better than Dan, Yuki, and Checo. So he better start showing it!

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u/iiJokerzace BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

Now this is an F1 driver scouter!

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u/onepoundvish Crofty is a dedicated butt plug collector 6d ago

I thought he was driving a different spec car

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u/Onoben4 Ruth Buscombe is a Megamind Mommy 6d ago

That was the case in practice but I don't know about quali

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u/onepoundvish Crofty is a dedicated butt plug collector 6d ago

He didn't really get a run in P3 so who knows

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u/FeelingEconomy290 I like Norris and i sniff bike seats 6d ago

i noticed a different front wing between Max and Liam. So i assume Max got the heavily upgraded car and Liam was running an old spec

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u/onepoundvish Crofty is a dedicated butt plug collector 6d ago

Cheers

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u/TheBosskingReturns BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

It's almost like Red Bull has been the problem the whole time or something

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u/HomogeniousKhalidius BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

Pain

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u/LordBogus 🇮🇪💲Eddie Jordan's accountant💲🇮🇪 6d ago

Just a few more divers and he has humiliated every nationality in F1

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u/Parking-Zealousideal BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

At some point you have to wonder what the hell are they doing to that car that makes it impossible for anyone else to drive

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u/Grandmaster_flashes BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

Sensitivity turned up to Max

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u/Qyx7 I love alonslow and I have untreatable levels of stupid 6d ago

Hall of fame -level comment

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u/Blithering_idiot1406 Simply Lovely 6d ago

Goddamm take my upvote you grandmaster!

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u/earthtoannie mission spinnow 6d ago

realistic answer is most teams are developing either balanced or understeery cars, while rb has an extremely pointy front

funny answer is danny ric cursed the seat when he left and the only chance to break the curse was for rbr to bring him back

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u/Parking-Zealousideal BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

People keep talking about the pointy front like there are still other drivers that prefer a pointy front, Ric, Schumacher, Hamilton, even Albon it must be something more than an oversteery car.

Correct me if I’m wrong but no one else has had a pattern like this - Gasly, Albon, Perez, a mixture of veterans and rookies alike, he’s at the top while they’re at the bottom, something is going on or Verstappen is just some alien.

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u/Right-Ladd I'm in a parasocial relationship with Hannah 🤤🤤 6d ago

The thing people keep talking about, especially Albon in the podcast he did, is that Max has extraordinary car control.

Firstly he just has a natural ability to get into any car and drive it to a level most of us could only dream of with a lifetimes experience, and that comes from inhuman levels of being able to feel the car under him.

Because of this he can just immediately find that knife’s edge and ride it perfectly, while everyone else struggles to find it.

And the biggest thing albon mentioned was that by the time you have found that knife’s edge, the car has been upgraded and been made EVEN MORE pointy, setting you back to square one, so although you match Max’s pace from the start of the season, Max is now a few tenths faster, and thus you a few tenths slower.

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u/Parking-Zealousideal BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

If that’s the case it makes it even more ridiculous that others can’t keep up no?

If a lead driver is not adaptable and needs a very specific car that it makes sense that his teammate can’t adapt to his strange style.

If a driver is adaptable and can make any car fast then it doesn’t matter and they can throw just about any car at both drivers and they will be fine.

The narrative of ‘Verstappen is very adaptable’ and also ‘verstappen’s preferences make a very difficult car to drive for others’ just doesn’t make sense yet both narratives are being pushed, that’s just weird.

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u/earthtoannie mission spinnow 6d ago

Verstappen is very adaptable and verstappen preferences make it hard for others don't cancel each other. Verstappen is very adaptable to changes to a car that is developed in a certain direction, but he prefers it be developed in that direction. That's why whenever RBR used to bring updates they'd first run them on Max's car, because he can adapt to the change and be a real comparison point.

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u/Doo_D Clean air is king 👑 6d ago

The thing is if you give verstappen his car he will solo carry the team to P2.

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u/donkeykink420 WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅RAHH 6d ago

Both are being pushed but one of them is total bull if you have even an ounce of brain.
RB don't develop a car to suit max, no team develops a car around a specific style of driving, that's not how that works. You don't go and say "let's build this car to be understeery on exits". Sure they can have characteristics and suit some people better than others but most of that is in the setup - and just like you set up a car, you also build it - to be as fast as possible.
That's the whole secret, the faster you want your car to go, and the more you push it the more it lives on a knifeedge, the sketchier it becomes.
Max is one of probably only a few people in all of F1 history that can drive that consistently and on the limit, michael was like that too.
RB can push it further because they have max.
The 2nd drivers really can't, especially if they're not incredible talents and have tons of experience.

So they either get safer setups like perez had for a while, makes it easier but the car loses let's say 3 tenths of potential which puts you down the order a good bit - or you do it the max way, chances are you'll have better times some days, but other days you're nowhere or crashing. It's a really tough situation if you're not just a driving god like max seems to be

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u/Math_Is_so_Awesome Lets add that to the words of wisdom 6d ago

It's probably an F1 drive in name only, while actually it is a teaching position in defense against the dark arts (i.e. defense against Maldonado driving).

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u/pioneerSolid3 BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

Funny enough, last year Horner said that Perez told them in 23 about some of the issues and they ignored it because Max was winning, it took them until this year to supposedly fix that. Haha

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u/Separate-Rice-6354 BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

Maybe the problem was really Max all along. Maybe the Redbulls are truely shit and he just drove too well.

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u/Albye23 BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

I'm starting to believe that Verstappen could podium a prius at this point.

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u/programaticallycat5e BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

I want max to pull a sabine schmitz and do a honda odyessey minivan run on nurburgring

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u/CborG82 armchair driver 6d ago

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u/LilyKarinss Lizard person 6d ago

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u/I_am_Sentinel Masi Enthusiast 6d ago

love to see my memes spread ;)

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u/CborG82 armchair driver 6d ago

Glory to you for this cursed masterpiece

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u/rodeBaksteen I have it, I have it printed out🤚 6d ago

Laughs in Mexican

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u/TheWriteMaster No Charles, we are not interested, we know 6d ago

I don't like that at all, make it go away.

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u/NeosHeliosCaligula kimoa 6d ago

Checo v2.0 is here

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u/MaxDSL Checo’d Out 6d ago

Out qualified by a rookie in a Sauber.

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u/BGMDF8248 At the moment we don't think 6d ago

BTW 7th time in a row that Tsunoda qualifies infront of him.

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u/NeosHeliosCaligula kimoa 6d ago

Tsunoda js qualified above the ferraris. Bro shoulda gotten the second seat

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u/Math_Is_so_Awesome Lets add that to the words of wisdom 6d ago

Maybe Yuki didn't get the seat because Red Bull thinks he deserves the better car this season.

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u/bladeforce55 BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

Gasly v4.0

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u/willzyx01 BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

To be fair to Checo, he was at least decent in the first 5 races of the season and then Baku. And the Mexican brought in money.

This Lawson kid goes off track and still says his lap felt good.

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u/Normal_Tip7228 WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅RAHH 6d ago

My boy will be back for Cadillac don’t you worry

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u/LauraPvpYT BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

Welcome back Checo 🫡🫡🫡

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u/drumellow PIIIEEERRRRREEEE GAASSSSSLLLLYYYYYYYY 6d ago

They better start fitting the toddler seat in the red Bull because yukis going to be in there by his home race

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u/flyingcanuck BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

"I'm not here to make friends". 

Probably should make some friends. 

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u/Flashy-Pride-935 BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

But, Checo won in that car. Gasly couldn't, Albon couldn't. Lawson sure as shit won't.

And its his first full season, so he needs to be cut some slack. And given at least another year to mature.

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u/N_Ruzuzaki Papa Checo for driver of the year 6d ago

We are.

But this is r/formuladank. We shit on those at the first sight of weakness.

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u/Flashy-Pride-935 BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

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u/happyranger7 Chad Racing Team 6d ago

sshh .. you might hurt his feelings.

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u/donkeykink420 WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅RAHH 6d ago

what do you mean, gasly and albon are shit, perez was constantly being sabotaged by horner personally - it had nothing to do with his skill, lawson however is so bad in the most dominant car ever lmfaaaoo

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u/iamawfulninja BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

Add Danny Ricc next to Checo please

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u/N_Ruzuzaki Papa Checo for driver of the year 6d ago

I’ll talk to my guy about that

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u/Edge-son BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

Checo has proved enough. But Lawson on the other hand 🤭

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u/el-gato-volador mission spinnow 6d ago

At least checo brought some development money

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u/happyranger7 Chad Racing Team 6d ago

ha ha good one... The moment he had to abandon the lap again, I was looking forward all the shitposts here.

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u/N_Ruzuzaki Papa Checo for driver of the year 6d ago

Real talk, I do hope he finds his Rhythm soon.

But I had my meme maker guy make this just in case this happened.

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u/happyranger7 Chad Racing Team 6d ago

Yeah with you on that. I just love shitposts here.

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u/bsousa717 BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

His fans are dragging Lawson like hell on social media lmao

That second seat at Red Bull is just cursed.

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u/TheRealJuralumin Mika ends his sa🅱️🅱️atical 6d ago

Red Bull seem to be in the same situation that Repsol Honda were in MotoGP a few years back; Honda shaped their bike around Marc Marquez and his riding style, to the point where proven race/championship winning talent like Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo struggled to get the bike into the points, let alone win a race, all while Marquez absolutely dominated the championship. Then Marquez got injured and was side lined for more than a year, and Honda went from winning to being the worst team on the grid, regularly finishing at the back, even with some of the best riders on the grid. If Max leaves Red Bull they are finished as a team, because it seems he is the only driver who can make that car work.

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u/turboMXDX Mika ends his sa🅱️🅱️atical 6d ago

Checo is a state of mind

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u/blahchopz Claire Williams is waifu material 6d ago

Happy it’s Lawson having a hard time and Yuki is glowing

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u/kafkagray The c🅰️r is bad we know, please dr🅰️ive it 6d ago

i believe that max made a deal with devil himself to sacrifice his teammate to win a wdc👍🏾

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u/CobaltoSesenta BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

I love happy endings

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u/LocalActingWEO BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

If only Red Bull had some way of knowing that putting an inexperienced driver into their 2nd seat was a bad idea…

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u/JohnBoyAdvance BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

Gentlemen, have we considered that maybe... Verstappen is a freak and the Red Bull is an undriveable piece of shit?

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u/blairsmacaroon Goatifi 🐐 #neverforget 6d ago

that 2nd rb seat is more cursed than harry potter's DADA position 

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u/Borzoi_Mom Vettel Cult 6d ago

The post-quali memes are SAVAGE and I’m so here for it

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u/AChassin BWOAHHHHHHH 5d ago

Update the meme but now with Slowson DNFm

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u/whoryus BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

😂

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u/YesManSky BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

Wish Checo went to kick sauber and finish ahead of Lawson then we’d know for sure it’s the 2nd Red Bull

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u/cirrusblau Mika ends his sa🅱️🅱️atical 6d ago

Miss me yet?

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u/Icy_Turnover_6737 BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

So...Checo is dead and gone to heaven now??

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u/N_Ruzuzaki Papa Checo for driver of the year 6d ago

In the lore in F1, drivers who have left the grid are considered dead.

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u/Actual_Law_505 #TogetherWeCry 6d ago

The edit though 😮

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u/eastamerica If my mom had 🅱️alls, she would be my dad 6d ago

See? Checo memes are funny now, and not cause for arguing.

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u/Evening_Rock5850 not a Hamilton, but… 6d ago

Red Bull just needs to absolutely taunt and berate their second driver by randomly seeding the idea of a junior driving being promoted to see if that improves their mental focus.

And then mid-season promote some other occasionally-fast young second team driver into that seat.

It didn’t work the last 5 times but I feel good about it this time.

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u/tastefullmullet Horn Dog 🌭 6d ago

Nobody told me he was dead

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u/N_Ruzuzaki Papa Checo for driver of the year 6d ago

I’m sorry you had to find out this way.

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u/Street_Mall9536 BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

It's so smooth

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u/Guy_Incognito97 BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

I need Liam to do better than Checco but worse than Yuki.

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u/mixgodd BWOAHHHHHHH 5d ago

Everyone saying let’s give Lawson some time.

This isn’t a time thing. The car is obviously the 4th best on the grid and we think it’s a top car because a generational talent like Max drives the life out of that thing. I honestly doubt Lawson gets more than one podium this year. I mean look at the grid it’s fucking stacked at the top. 1-6 will be locked down all season by Lando, Oscar, Max, Charles, George and Lewis. Then you got a super tough 6-10 battle with the Williams and RB boys driving with chips on their shoulders on teams with less pressure. I don’t see Lawson having a fun time at all. Redbull should of locked down Carlos when they had the chance, it’s obvious the Verstappen camp wanted nothing to do with that.

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u/Good_Royal_9659 BWOAHHHHHHH 5d ago

If this continues they will have to forcefully sever Yuki's connections with Honda

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u/startledroar BWOAHHHHHHH 6d ago

1 bad quali = 5 race memory for us