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Originally Posted by SenorFunkyPants
It seems to me that Red Bull have been trying to emulate the successful Schumacher Ferrari years.
Its not that they actively try to screw their second driver (that was just a bit of hyperbole) they just aren't that bothered about him...as you noted above they pick a driver to be their #1 and he gets the best of everything and the other driver gets the brown end of the stick.
You'd think that with all the years of data [1], the computer modelling and all the thousands of simulator hours purposed to create the baseline set up for any particular track...that both the Red Bull drivers would end up with a similarish set up...but that simply hasn't been the case.
Its not like Albon had years of F1 experience to rely on, to help develop his set up from the baseline...he was a rookie in the team (with few races completed in F1)...how the hell did he end up with such a dramatically different set up (at nearly every race) to his team mate who has years of experience in the car. It makes no sense.
One exception was the second race at the Red bull track where Verstappen and Albon had identical max speeds and Albon had a decent race...finishing 4th.
When Hamilton arrived at McLaren as a rookie he got the baseline set up and any changes that Alonso made during practice and raced with it. Right up until Alonso started getting grumpy about it and wanted to stop Hamiltons side of the garage having access to his data.
[1] Having seen the success of Mercedes (and this years Racing point) with a long wheelbase low rake car design you have to wonder if Red Bull might feel they have to follow suit and ditch their short wheelbase case with near 2 degrees of rake. The downside is of course that the years of track data they have with the current design goes in the bin.
On the other hand having watched the RPs improved through the season they might feel its worth it.
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Apathy towards a person is actively screwing them in any business setting and as you well know, F1 is just another business setting. If these were two salespersons it would be like giving one incorrect sales information to take to the client.
The worse thing is that this is their standard behavior and as you so aptly stated, they seem to be trying to emulate the Ferrari model which, at first glance seems good, but is actually so damaging and yields substandard results.
The Mercedes way is the way forward.
Cheers, my friend-mk