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Originally Posted by gohawks23
Max seems pretty ordinary driver this year since his car advantage has fallen off...but why the huge gap between him and his teammate? Is the other driver not so good because cars should be pretty similar?
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Why the big gap with his teammate?
Why the equally big gap with his previous teammate (LAW)
Why the equally big gap with is teammate before that (PER, 4 years long 4 years in a row)
Why the equally big gap with his teammate before that (ALB)
Why the equally big gap with his teammate before that (GAS)
Why the equally big gap with his teammate before that (RIC, we're now back in 2018
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You see a pattern?
some say you can rate a driver best if you compare him to his teammate, as they drive the same car.
And there's no driver that performs better in this scenario than Max. No driver has ever been that far ahead of his teammates years on end.
Sure there have been drivers that for most of the years performed better, but never that long, with that many driver and with those differences (either in points or in places in the championship).
I mean if you finish 1st years on end but your teammate finishes always 2nd years on end and the point difference isn't that much...sure you're better than your teammate, but for sure what sets you (and your teammate) ahead from the rest of the field is 100% the car.
Then again, if you are 1st years on end and your teammate isn't always 2nd, but also 3rd or 5th or lower.....then the driver is clearly a very deciding factor. (and this obviously also goes for if you're constantly 5th and your teammate can only finish 15th...years on end).
Many people underplay the performance of Verstappen, but none of it explains why, no matter who you put beside Max as a teammate in the same car, the difference is always huge.
So Max looking average now scoring 4th....indeed look at TSU. Any other driver on the grid would've finished in the low top 10 in that same car.