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Danny Ric
What a legend. With his accomplishments and character, he left an immensely positive mark on F1 over the last 14 years.
Shame on Red Bull for the joke of a sendoff. What a trash organization at every level. |
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Ric screwed RB back in 2019 when he left for Renault. Then he screwed Renault when he left for McLaren. RB gave him another 2 years in the car after all of the other teams said no thanks. You can't just go team hopping like that and not back it up with performance. Adios Ric, hopefully he sticks around and becomes an announcer or something so we can still enjoy his character, but his current driving is pathetic. Time for another rookie to step in. |
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09-26-2024, 02:32 PM | #3 |
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Hard to feel sorry for him, he earned a ton of money at Renault and McLaren, but shortened his career with poor performance.
At least we were not subject to more of his "shoeys"... |
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Lousy way to let him go through - not even giving him a proper/official team send off at his last race. Still it’s the RB way I guess.
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Time has ended. Time should have ended after his stint with McLaren. It's too easy to pick and gamble on any F2 driver when you're comparing them to RIC performance. Other than being a favorite in the paddock because of personality, nothing RIC at his age did nothing to warrant him a seat over any junior driver in any of the teams driver programs.
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it could be seen as a shame that McLaren and RB kept him for so long, keeping younger drivers out of F1. but if I were DR, I would stay and take the money of course. because of how it played out I think he's had a while to plan his departure. I wish him all the best. Last edited by G30M; 09-26-2024 at 10:58 PM.. |
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So Perez keeps his seat but DR gets the axe. Make it make sense.
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I see it as follows:
If Liam does well and clearly outperforms Yuki over the rest of the season, there is a great chance he gets the 2025 Red Bull and Checo is dropped. Then Isack Hadjar would take the RB seat vacated by Liam. If Liam is more neck and neck with Yuki or underperforms, then Checo keeps the Red Bull seat for 2025 and Liam stays with RB for 2025. Either way, Checo won't be with Red Bull in 2026. |
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He was the one who knew when RB started screwing up their car. Max just drove around the problem, Checo identified it. He was driving really well until then, and has come back into decent form since RB started making changes. He'll be around for a few more years. |
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What would a "proper send off" be? And why? Why belabor it? He left RB hanging back in 2018, and all of the sudden now they need to bend over backwards for a poorly performing driver, and do what exactly?
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Drivers leave teams all the time; he left RB as he saw the writing on the wall that he would perpetually be #2 driver to Max there on. Arguably the right call. If RB was so injured by that decision, they wouldn’t have brought him back. I agree he didn’t cut it and underperformed, still no reason not to treat him with a little more dignity. |
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Sure, they don't owe him anything, and I don't disagree with any of the points above really. He was a back-marker for the last few years and his story would have had a better ending if he hung it up a while ago. But it would not have hurt RB to announce his departure prior to the race so he could at least have a parade lap and do some donuts. |
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