I read an interview with Karun Chandhok and his opinions on Red Bull at the moment, which made a lot of sense. Tsunoda is now getting a lot of flack for his performances at Red Bull, something which is all too familiar with that seat. It seems that team has all its eggs in one basket and a car that is tailored to suit Max, most of the time. If Max were to sign with Mercedes as some rumours have suggested he might, how do Red Bull solve this issue of successive drivers not being able to set up that second car? They then find themselves with two drivers struggling to set up a car and two teams of engineers not understanding where the issues are. Right now Red Bull have no chance of winning the constructors championship with one driver regularly in the top 5, and seem no closer to solving Tsunoda's issues. The Helmet is naturally blaming Yuki as he's done with every other driver who has been in his position, but at what point do Red Bull accept responsibility?
Another question is Max; if his prefereneces for car set up, design direction, are that unique, how would other teams adapt to that? Ferrari and Mercedes have shown they struggle to understand dips in form, let alone design using a totally unique philisophy. I know a lot of fans would say that Max is 'that good' that he can drive a bad car and his talent makes up for it, but people used to say that about Lewis. At this point we don't actually know if Max could do that as he's been that Red Bull for 9 years and wasn't exactly setting the world alight in terms of consistency at Toro Rosso, albeit being a very young driver in his defence. I think this will be interesting to watch in the coming months and maybe season's.
Another question is Max; if his prefereneces for car set up, design direction, are that unique, how would other teams adapt to that? Ferrari and Mercedes have shown they struggle to understand dips in form, let alone design using a totally unique philisophy. I know a lot of fans would say that Max is 'that good' that he can drive a bad car and his talent makes up for it, but people used to say that about Lewis. At this point we don't actually know if Max could do that as he's been that Red Bull for 9 years and wasn't exactly setting the world alight in terms of consistency at Toro Rosso, albeit being a very young driver in his defence. I think this will be interesting to watch in the coming months and maybe season's.
