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Originally Posted by TheBingoBalls
Just pondering? If anyone thinks that VER is primarily responsible for the Red Bull dominance in 2022 and 2023, they are a very illogical VER fan. No driver can be responsible for 20+ second wins. If someone really believes that, where are the race wins since Miami? The grid didn't forget how to drive in 2022 and 2023 and now suddenly, everyone is a F1 driver again this year.
VER is still arguably the best talent on the grid today, but this whole "Max factor" is quite comical to any logical F1 fan.
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I certainly was not suggesting RB dominance was primarily due to VER and am also a rare visitor to this forum due to VER fanatics.
I do however ponder if RB are now paying for being overly complacent in 2023 due to some of all of the following factors;
- Mercedes drastically underperforming and failing to fix design issues caused by regulation change the previous year, thus flattering RB advantage, and
- financial caps and other F1A rules restricting ability of other top teams (more than previous years) to close the gap, and
- as previously stated whether 2/10th-3/10th per lap edge was actually provided by VER ( who was benefitting from ideal conditions and therefore not having weaknesses exposed) thus flattered RB car advantage (e.g actually only 10+ secs rather than 20+ secs) to the extent they got complacent (or took design risks). It is interesting that once competitive pressure returned we see more aggressive tactics return, which could only get worse given other driver attitudes.
Imo we will have to see several more races before drawing firm conclusions on top 4 car performance order. The last 4 races had very specific factors which may have flattered Mercedes (2 races probably won due to VER mistakes) and NOR really is making too many mistakes generally.
Thoughts?