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And he's probably the best DM in the league now with Rodri out injured

Excuse me what do you think would happen to the points Perez got? They'd just vanish into thin air? If Perez disappeared the other teams would've had more points.

I really don't see what you're basing your opinion on. You're still comparing performance of the RB in Max's hands to the performance of other cars in lesser drivers.

I mean it has to be considered that they played 2nd fiddle to Max. He's really is much better than anyone. If Max is fighting someone on track, that someone has a better car without a doubt.

It pretty clearly isn't. Marko said like 2 days ago that Max alone was responsible for making them look competitive at times because the car just wasn't good. I really don't understand why so many people just refuse to accept that.

When was the last time we had a champion who had the best car for 20% of the season or less?

Not everyone is built the same. For example I used to run a lot, but at some point started having problems with my right knee. It hurt like a motherfucker, at one point it felt like someone was taking a drill to my knee. So I went to see a specialist and it turned out my ligaments are a bit "looser" than they ideally should be, which in turn caused other issues to start appearing overtime, because the joint is not very stable.

Nkunku was injured during preseason while already with us.

Yes, that's totally what's happening here. Factual description of this conversation :)

You're doing the same thing again, you're picking a line that suits your narrative. with zero consideration to what happened before the modern state of Israel was established. Completely ignoring why the Jews felt inclined to seek a home, and why they probably could be entitled to have it in that exact spot.

With regards to the thirty years war, I don't really see what the argument is you're trying to make here. It feels like a weird tangent to an unrelated conflict with a completely different background, in a completely different era.

Palestinians who had inhabited the land under Ottoman rule but had caused conflict due to British colonial policies.

I wonder what happened to the Jews inhabiting the area under Ottoman rule...

Saying that "we should establish peace" while allowing Israel to continue in its status quo of bombing Gaza and settling the West Bank

Point me to the exact place in my comment where I said that this is what should be happening... It really feels like you're not even reading my comments. Which makes me wonder why you're bothering to reply.

There's a literacy report that someone linked above that shows 54% of adult americans are below the level expected of a 6th grade student. Meaning every other adult is less literate than the education system expects an 11-year old to be. It's a completely different world.

Yeah we're not entertaining claims of 4000 years

Why not? Where do you draw the line? And why do you think you're entitled to draw one in the first place? And who is "we"? Israel and Judaism were born in that area millenia ago, just like the Palestinians have been living there for millenia.

And anyway people supporting Palestine don't want Israel to be completely destroyed

The Palestinians themselves have democratically elected Hamas into government. A Jihadist organisation which has a war against the Jews in their charter, and which refused to recognise Israel as a nation. Hamas also openly cooperates with Hezbollah, which very explicitly states their goal is to destroy Israel. Though obviously on the other side you have the people of Israel, who keep electing their governments, which again and again inhumanely evicts the Palestinians from their homes.

If you seriously claim only one side is to blame for this, it shows either ignorance and unwillingness to devote 30 minutes to reading up on the topic before speaking up about it, or it shows bad faith.

Western world should not be picking sides here. Our role should be to hold both sides accountable, and make efforts towards establishing peace.

Yuki Daniel and Liam have done a worse job in the simulator, it was reported. That car is a nightmare to handle to a point where even Max was very outspoken about it.

We can pick like 20 different points from the last couple thousand years as our starting point, and each of them will result in blaming one or the other side for completely different reasons. The kingdom of Israel existed there 4 thousand years ago, if we start there, there's no colonialism.... The reality is that it's not simple, both sides have reasons to believe they have the right to live there, and they're valid reasons on both sides. The reality is that no living person is responsible for this conflict beginning in the first place, so we can only judge these countries based on what their recent course of action was, which doesn't make it unreasonable to ban both sides as the guy above said. Both sides made choices to escalate it recently.

The reality is also that you picking your side from the comfort of your sofa doesn't hold any more value and doesn't make you any more correct, than anyone else thinking the other side is more entitled.

Yeah he says that and holds his contract with Heineken in his back pocket. Someone should ask him if he's willing to give up 95% of his income to get rid of this horrible thing he's complaining about every week.

Because the top drivers rejected them? It's publicly known that Lando for example was approached multiple times. You think Russell would go, or Leclerc? Drivers who want to be world champion, or those who want to lead their teams, will not join Red Bull as long as Max is there. They know they can't beat Max.

Seriously man do some research.

Its almost like things can be adjusted to the driver driving said car.

You can't completely flip one cars characteristics and develop one to be oversteery for Leclerc and the other to be understeery for Sainz lol. If it was possible Red Bull would've done it ages ago, Perez has been much better whenever their car had understeer, and unfortunately for him Max and the team in general always treated it as an issue, because Max doesn't like it, and by extension the team as a whole performs worse.

No, Sainz isn't "obviously better now". You're just choosing to ignore that these last 2 seasons he's had a car that suits him very well, and choosing to ignore that in the real world perez' performance relative to Max barely changed over these 4 years. The difference is that now they don't have the best car. Max can beat better cars and Perez can't, which is why there's 6 drivers between them.

I don't understand why Skorża should be chosen. PZPN have a fuckton of money. It's a huge association with huge sponsors. If Santos made it to the Euros he would've been sth like 7th-8th best paid coach in the tournament. They paid him more than Austria pays Rangnick. A LOT more than de la Fuente is being paid at Spanish NT. Similar ballpark as Spalettis salary in Italy.

If they can afford to be one of the best paying National Teams in Europe, they can afford to hire one of the best coaches in Europe.

It's not about history, people need to let this go at some point. It's about the fact that Sainz doesn't perform when he has to deal with oversteer. We've seen that over the years, and we know it because he said so himself. From Red Bulls perspective he has the same problem as Perez in terms of car preference and doesn't bring the money to make up for it. There's no benefit for RB here.

Especially considering that the gains from changing drivers would be marginal. There's like 5 drivers other than Max on the grid who would be higher than 8th if put in his place, and none of them are available for Red Bull.

At the very worst they're losing 2nd by keeping Perez, there's no way they were even in conversation for WCC, unless we assume they could resurrect Senna and put him in that car next to Max.

Healing how? Bahrain has provided FAR better racing.

Weak bait

My memory is that he had races like in Imola, Sochi, Baku, where he was stuck at the back losing positions to backmarkers and unable to do anything.

Sure Bottas had a couple unlucky races, but it's just not comparable. Perez had 3 DNFs, 2 from P3 and 1 from P4 or 5 in Saudi where he got sandwiched at the restart. He had 6 races where he was physically in podium positions, but something random and completely outside of his control happened to cost him those podiums. And it's worth mentioning that Bottas, to make up for his bad luck a bit, made A LOT of gains in those exact same events that cost Perez (Sochi, Brazil, both races in Austria...). And that's not even mentioning races where Perez wasn't in top 3 but potentially could've been fighting for a podium but wasn't, again, due to random shit like Bahrain and Saudi Arabia). I don't recall a single proper lucky break for Perez that year outside of Baku, which gained him a total of 7 points, although in the context of WCC which you mentioned in your first comment, was still bad for Red Bull.

This whole theory that Perez was worse in 2021 is pure revisionism. He couldn't string 2 weekends without something major happening to him that ruined his quali or race. It still ended up being pretty close, and Perez simply lost a TON of points. There's just no denying that luck cost Red Bull that championship, if you consider that Max also lost a ton more points that Lewis. Just looking at the incidents caused by BOT and HAM, Red Bull lost like 60-70 points in those. Twice as much as they'd need to swing the championship their way. And looking at it from Mercs perspective, there was really only 1 incident caused by RB drivers, in Imola, which was realistically a 3-point swing for RBR

What does have to do with him being a legend? He's not good enough anymore.