I'm so sorry for putting this here but I dont have an f1 blog and I srsly need ppl to stop with this "dAnIeL iS nOt UsEd tO tHe cAr" bs. HE IS STUCK WITH AN INCOMPETENT TEAM. like let's do a recap of his season so far:
Bahrain: after entirely missing pre season testing due to covid daniel barely had any time in the car and he missed one of the practice sessions bc his team couldnt get his car going. qualified p18. finished p14 ahead of his teammate. The car was shit. He was still being positive about it.
Jeddah: tom stallard fails to inform daniel that the car behind him is on a hot lap during a practice session in what happens to be one the most dangerous tracks on the calendar. daniel qualified p12 right behind his teammate but had to take a three place grid penalty for impeding ocon in fp3 thank to tom stallard. during the race daniel was running in points when he had to swap positions with his teammate and later retired from the race due to mechanical issues.
Melbourne: daniel once again gets shitty qualifying strategy. qualified p7. finished p6. he was asked not to overtake his teammate when he started losing power. wonder what would have happened if the roles were reversed oh wait I actually do know what would have happened (jeddah 2022)
Imola: shitty qualifying strategy once again. tom stallard is showing incompetency once again. lol what's new? qualified p6 after only getting one lap. he made a mistake and had a first lap incident with carlos which was declared a racing incident by the race directors and yet it didn't stop him from apologising to everyone and their mother for it. (btw norris getting a podium bc sainz crashed and leclerc spun and merc were having a particularly rough weekend doesn't make mcalren a podium winning car)
Miami: tom stallard once again. on a new and dangerous track. couldn't get his car going in q2. barely got a lap. shitty race strategy as always. finished p13.
Barcelona: made it to q3 but couldn't improve on his lap time bc he didn't have any tyres left and his team's strategy for his qalifying was that they totally didn't expect him to make it to q3. the race strategy speaks for itself. had to swap position positions with his teammate yet again. and was got a set of used softs after very clearly stating that he didn't want them.
and this is just from the top of my head I'm sure there is so much more. mclaren made a shit car and the least they could do was get the strategy right but they have a history of being shit at that too. so maybe just maybe instead of putting blame on daniel their ceo needs to get his shit together and hire better ppl?
