Nah, I'm not going into a link battle with you. I'm sitting here expecting proof, real proof, from you that Red Bull's car was better than the rest of the grid, and you sent me a link from Ted Kravitz?
Yeah, no. At least sent me one from someone who has a background in engineering like Bernie Collins.
They won those races last year. Would you say their car got worse or did the other cars get better? It’s a leading question. Cars change all the time. They get upgrade packages and sometimes they work better than expected. If cars are being upgraded and changed they aren’t equal. If Red Bull was dominating all these races and other cars have been closing the gap, the gap existed. The longer regulations stay the same the closer the gap gets. Red Bull had the best car. Others closed the gap this year. 2025 will be the tightest year for manufacturers performance. Come 2026 they reset.
How can you prove it had the best car? Just because Verstappen was winning it doesn't prove that Red Bull had the best car, that's specious reasoning. In the same vein, how can you prove that Williams' car wasn't a total drag or that Sauber was actually good? You can't because we don't have a common denominator in all cars: the same driver.
If by some miracle Verstappen drove every car in every race then we would have a clear answer to our query. Besides, you postulate that "Red Bull had the best car" then it was the car who won the WDC, not the driver. You see how that's illogical?
So we are agree there are faster and slower cars and drivers. You don’t like that Perez finished 8th in arguably the fastest car. You want something more than qualifying times and race performance to prove Red Bull had the fastest car. I thought it was common knowledge Red Bull has had half a second on every car but you want telemetry proof to accept this but won’t provide proof of your own.
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u/kingofthenorph BWOAHHHHHHH 18h ago
Link me an article saying Perez is good