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Originally Posted by Rtrorkt
A question for the Pelican brain trust. Seems that Red Bull’s struggles started about the time Newey left. Did he have that sort of quali, race day influence that his absence is a source of their issues? And I guess Horner-gate has not helped
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I don't think so re:Newey, too soon... Even this year he was only giving directions, Pierre Vaché (sP?) drew most of that car, and actually some say there were disagreements that led to Newey pulling back and deciding to walk away.
If you look at it, the gap between redbull and Ferrari (and behind them) is about the same. Except Mac Laren jumped forward in a crazy way and Mercedes finally seems to have a handle on their car and are still a bit ON/Off but closer.. MacLaren is the big question mark for me, how on earth do you go from this ****e to this good in one season when Mercedes was stuck for 3 years... Hmm...
I was listening to an interesting podcast where the guys were analyzing the car pace based on both drivers and sectors etc... and saying the Red bull was the 3rd or 4th fastest car now, and so far Max's brilliant driving had masked this very well but Checo was at the car's true level. I'm starting to believe it, and it's nice to see Max lose patience.. Also I'd like to see his race engineer tell him to F-off on live radio sometimes ("childish" was too nice)...