[Artemis]

Originally Posted by dfox

Redbull has more data than these summaries. Apparently Lawson was faster than Tsunoda in race pace on similar tires. The gap in qualifying time was 0.069 seconds, in favor of Tsunoda. Lawson also did well in defending and passing more seasoned drivers, Tsunoda still gets all flustered and then drives like crap once he gets angry. Tsunoda has 4 years of experience, Lawson has less than 1, broken up over two seasons, driving on many tracks that he's never seen before. Lawson is jumping into F1 at about the point that it's taken Tsunoda 4 years to get to. Lawson was the right choice.

I was hooked on Lawson ever since he knocked Max out in Q3 in Singapore last year. Let's go buddy!

Furthermore, buried deep down in lap times data: the best drivers are excellent in giving feedback to the team about car performance; they do way more than lapping tracks; they analyse the car performance while driving and pitch ideas for fine-tuning parts and settings.

It distinguishes top drivers from good drivers: more detailed and on point. For example Ricciardo was known for often lazily 'copying' fine-tuned setups from his team mates Verstappen and Norris. But like a handwriting or the way of walking, each driver has his very own driving style and driving preferences. For this sort of things, Ricciardo was a follower and Verstappen a leader.

In many interviews, Verstappen told that tooling with karts with his dad Jos from day 1, very dedicated, with countless hours of tuning kart setups, experimenting, helped him to truly understand the dynamics on track and how to drive cars on the very limit. He uses his vast knowledge and experience from his karting days. From all F1 drivers ever, when they were aged 27, Verstappen has undoubtedly most mileage of them all (real world racing + virtual racing) - it makes him Max the Machine.

Peculiar driving style habit from karting days: in F1 racing and sim racing, Verstappen still briefly twitches his right foot everytime when positioning it on the throttle pedal. Probably only few F1 drivers do this:
https://youtube.com/shorts/T8tr0-TetD0

Also interpersonal contact between driver and team mechanics: who do they prefer ?

Those aspects are also part of the equation in choosing a driver.

Looks like Lawson ticked more boxes than Tsunoda on the global evaluation sheet.

Of course, if your dad is called Lawrence Stroll or if you got billionaire sponsors backing you, the decision-making gets distorted.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Isack Hadjar is/was part of the Red Bull junior team . So they know what they are dealing with as he showed really good stuff.
Hadjar has angry wild eyes , but that can be part of his Algerian side..
This means more wild fearless rookies in the 2025 season . And LEW as the new man in 'Red .

Can't wait to see that (!)

Yeah I can see that now, he hadn't been on the radar much before this.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

It looks like the KitKat man has taken his Tequila back to Mexico => https://www.reddit.com/r/formuladank...ct_terminated/

I'm disappointed he didn't stop of here and just drop of a bottle to me on his way back

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

I was waiting for that to come .

Hook, line and sinker.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by Killed by Death

And how many years have I been telling them to switch? It's been awhile. Even The Iceman hated pushrod

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

That'll be the day...

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

That'll be the day...

Ferrari Fred and his French accent sucks even more than mine ..

[///M Power-Belgium]

[Killed by Death]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

He still should have kicked Ocon's ass

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Ferrari Fred and his French accent sucks even more than mine ..

Too many of the snails and french rolls he stuffs himself with.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by Killed by Death

He still should have kicked Ocon's ass

Bearman I'm sure will take precautions against OCO after seing his antics against Gasly and Max.