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Charlie is married to Ferrari and Lando is the loose cannon now that can jump ship, Carlo should watch out as 'Ferrari' or whoever it is that rules the outfit doesn't like any of the drivers bitching too much, say too much and you're out, Fred just follows orders. Agree that it's just a matter of time before RIC is pensioned off. Last edited by M5Rick; 07-12-2023 at 07:07 AM.. |
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In December 2020, De Vries performed his first F1 test for the Mercedes team at the season-ending Young Driver Test. In 2021 he became one of the reserve drivers for the Mercedes team.
But it looks like Toto Wolff didn't mind him leaving to Alpha Tauri. If Wolff is convinced that De Vries has F1 talent of the calibre of Russell, Norris, Leclerc or Verstappen, he could welcome the Prodigal Son again at Mercedes. Wolff knows him well: that's an advantage ...or disadvantage.
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II bet Ric is even cheaper as in essentially free and he's a known quantity (unlikely to wreck, hitting the ground running, etc.). Perhaps they don't want to burn the rest of their season on another rookie and would try to earn some points/money? AT is dead last at 2 pts. Of course if the car is shit not even Max will get you there.
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LEW's $230 Million contract demand is too expensive anyway !
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My friend, we all know that wolfy is the biggest idiot with too much money, I think de Vries would be the bargain of the season in Merc replacing LEW and having a decent car would be hounding the Russell boy before long
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I wonder...
It's clear that DEV has been replaced by RIC to see if RIC is fit and fast enough to replace PER next year. They want to give RIC as much races as possible to put down a decent performance for that. But what RIC also gets beaten over and over by TSU (TSU has improved himself quite a bit since GAS left imho, so I'm still not convinced that RIC will beat TSU). Will they (Marko) promote TSU to replace PER? I mean, Marko now still states that PER race pace is good (or adequate) but we all know that it's sub par, considering the car he's driving and how Max performs. And that has been an ongoing saga since mid season last year that difference in performance is enormous. Even if you take away PER bad qualifying sessions. The way PER cuts through the field and the way Max does it, is a world apart. Just look at Miami. And I don't think TSU minds playing 2nd driver at RB like PER did. For TSU it would be a huge promotion any way you look at it.
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Yes it's hard, but there are 2 plus sides: more drivers get a chance (I mean, how long has DEV been on the bench at Mercedes, never got a chance, and to put it even stronger: how many new talent got a chance at Mercedes anyway?), and if you're good, you can promote yourself very fast to the top cars.
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Sitting on the bench at Mercedes is a dead end. Sitting on the bench at RB not, as you make a chance to perform at AT, and if you succeed, you're into RB with the fastest car on the grid. It sucks when you have a seat and things are not going to plan or if you have trouble with the pressure. But it rules when you're on the bench.
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This is what Jack Plooij said preceding the austrian GP, where he said Nyck only had 2 races to show performance (I guess that means getting points, so Austria and Silverstone): https://youtube.com/shorts/PTuX2uUPTaM So I think the performance at the tyre test was not that important. Nyck sealed his fate himself. And maybe Nyck even knew it earlier, which would explain his action on KMag at the canadian GP (which was for P12, so a close chance of scoring a point) That action where he rammed KMag oozed desperation. It's superhard, and his bad luck is that RB has RIC on the shelf and they're looking for a replacement for Checo (despite Marko saying the opposite....) but Nyck still got more chances at AT than sitting on the bench at Merc... Nyck's biggest chance....Ricciardo doing great this year, replaces Perez next year (Perez not performing this year and not getting 2nd place, that is his set goal for this year) and Perez is too proud to take place in an AT car for his last year and decides to quit early with payed leave Who's then gonna fill that seat then?
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