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Tom B
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I can't see why MCl would take him to give him his rookie year/s if he is any way under contract to Renault/ Alpine only to see him walk away or be dragged away once he's stopped smashing stuff up and shown promise. That's a Williams, Alfa or Toro job.
I'd say a move to Alpine is Ricc's only chance of salvaging his career and reputation. Only they and red bull know how good (or not) he is anyone else would be nervous. Id only see red bull wanting him if Perez decided to go, but I can't see Ric wanting to be destroyed by Max weekly and Red Bull doesn't seem a nice place at the moment. Alpine, well if the Piastri deal is off might see him as a safe pair of hands. Personally I think he's overrated, but I didn't expect him to be pasted by Lando as much as he has been.
All that said the last couple of MCL haven't been to his liking or suited his style, but what's to say any other car would be?
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Illaveago
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I was just reading that they want to make new changes for how many times a team uses . They reckon it is to make sure that one team doesn't have a monopoly of winning championships .
All these rule changes !
Why don't they just do what they did last year and rig the final outcome ? It would be much easier !
All these rule changes !
Why don't they just do what they did last year and rig the final outcome ? It would be much easier !
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I like Ricciardo, on his day he could match Verstappen & beat him in the same car, but he doesn't have 'it' now I don't know what 'it' is, but some drivers have it & other don't.
Most drivers don't have 'it', Coulthard, Webber, Alesia, Barricello, never had 'it' Some have 'it' for a very short period of time Hill, Button, Vettel** then there are drivers who clearly have/had 'it' Senna, M Schumacher, Hamilton, Verstappen, of the latest crop coming along, I think LeClerc & Russell have 'it' jury is out on Sainz but I think he will turn into an almost
**Maybe I'm being unfair, but I seem to remember he won most of his races from the front & never performed when faced with adversity or had to come from the back.
Illaveago
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You forgot Norris .
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I'm 90% with you, but I'm not quite sure he'd ruthless enough (yet)
Chislenko
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And Olivier Panis!
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In what way?
FishFright
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I was just reading that they want to make new changes for how many times a team uses . They reckon it is to make sure that one team doesn't have a monopoly of winning championships .
All these rule changes !
Why don't they just do what they did last year and rig the final outcome ? It would be much easier !
They already have ... probably , it's all about the show don't you know,
And how many time a team uses a full stop ?
Illaveago
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8loody! Alter Krekt! It was tyres !
matticus
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I think it's fair to say that Panis had "it" for one race!
Chislenko
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To be fair I think he would have won in Canada as well if his steering hadn't gone putting him into the wall and breaking his legs!
He had just unlapped himself from the leader (I think Schumacher?) and was from memory circulating 8 seconds a lap faster than the leaders with enough laps to make up the time.
I think Prost (Ligier) was the only team running Bridgestone tyres which were far outlasting what the other teams were using. (Start to finish no tyre stops or limited tyre stop in those days if my memory serves me)
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I wonder if they should go the Indy car way with pitstops, they only allow 6 team members to be in the pit lane for the stop instead of the 20+ they have in F1.
