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Yuki Tsunoda sympathy corner – Giving Yuki a hug since 1837
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F1 is not the only motorsport in the world, so go ahead and post your shitposts about WEC or MotoGP or IndyCar or ralley or Polish Speedway or whatever. Even Formula E, I guess. It needs some love, too.
By the way, F2 > F1.
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As an armchair non-expert, I predict Yuki will be sacked within a month. Lawson gets the big boy seat back, RB pulls in a rookie.
Why do you think that? I think the new leadership is trying to bring stability to the team. Lawson is at the same performance level in the RB as Tsunoda was. The Red Bull car has a very narrow operating window and suits the driving style of Verstappen. Everyone else has a really hard time getting anything out of that car. It takes time to get close to the level of Verstappen and it's hard to get there when the car doesn't perform at all unless you are near his level.
This isn't new, we've seen cars like this in the past. I remember the Ferrari car being a handful back in the day. When Massa was injured in 2009 and had to step out for a while, nobody could drive his car. They tried Luca Badoer, who was very experienced driving the car in the simulator, but was dead slow in the real car. They then pulled in Fisichella, who did pretty well as teammate to Alonso at Renault and had a pole position and podium with Force India that year. He was nowhere in the Ferrari, I don't think he scored a single point. Whilst Raikkonen was fighting at the front regularly in the same car.