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Car, driver, both nearly equally important. That's the F1 difference, otherwise watch Indy, which is more driver based. Gets a little to nascar-ified for me though. Too many cars on the road leads to diluted driver performance and lots of crashes.
The dynamic at RB with Max and Checo is pretty telling. Beginning of last year, Checo was winning races, even over Max in some cases. That fell apart as they started changing the car and getting farther out of Checo's comfort zone. This year seems to be more of the same, except the RB isn't the fastest car on the grid so more drivers are slotting in between Max and Checo.
McLaren's story this year is also telling that the car makes a big difference. They're destroying the field right now. Lando is still the more talented driver, but we are all watching Piastri learn and catch up to Lando quickly. I think it's just a year or so before we see Lando plateau and Piastri and Max become the next big rivalry, as long as the cars stay reasonably close in performance.
Hamilton falling from grace and coming back recently with a better performing car is also telling.
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