When it comes to Formula 1 driver line-up, top teams always face a dilemma.
Is it better to be a clear number one driver who will lead the team’s effort, or two competitive racers that can bring the best in each other, but sometimes can compete for the same positions and therefore marks each other Can be lost – at the top – the terrible rivalry at the top, as much as they can be nowadays, can be harmful to the possibilities of an organization.
It is easy to portray this dilemma in a possible title race for 2025 as red bulls Max Verustapane Takes McLaren Drivers Lando Noris And Oscar Piastry.
Vastapane has not been matched by Team-Mate in pace (or any major metric) Daniel Reciardo Left red bull in 2018 Pierre GalliAlexander Albon and Sergio PerezVastapane has scored 2353.5 points in the last six sessions; His partners scored only 1176 points of the team’s total – 33%.
Meanwhile, Piastry was quite more competitive in its Sophomore F1 campaign as compared to its first year, claiming two Grand Prix victory and all the two Sunday races recorded the top-eight results, which McLaren gave Contributed to the title of 2024 Constructors.
In contrast, the Perez top five of the Red Bull failed to eliminate any of the last 18 Grands Prix, the experience of experienced was so sad that he was replaced by 23 -year -old Liam Lawson for 2025.
According to Piastry, there is a healthy working relationship between McLaren’s drivers. “It is clearly a different dynamic,” Australian comment.
“I think Liam will do a good job. Apparently, famously we know how strong Max is, but I think there are other advantages that come with being a strong team-partner. In the context of being able to learn from each other, it is a huge help for both of us in trying to make it fast.
“You can clearly not measure the profit that each of us is a strong team-partner next to each other, but I think we both have a real to learn from each other Lap is the benefit of time.
“But yes, it is clearly its downside even in some situations. In my opinion I think it moves forward, and naturally if you become a world champion, you are going to be worthy of it, whether your team partners are. ,
In 2024, how many points did Verustapane and Noris actually lose from their teammates?
Perez had no real impact on the point-scoring of Vastapane during the 2024 campaign
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A first interesting – although not fully representative – MT is the top car of the red bull in each Grand Prix (ie Verustapane in all, but one) scored 447 points when McLaren scored 450 rounds with 450 with Piastry with 450 rounds with Piastry Scored in eight out of eight.
Obviously, this is not only about the drivers, who are taking marks from each other, but also that they sometimes fail to maximize their car’s ability, an area where Verustapane to Excel Is known for It is also important to see the long -term direct effects of their rivals of drivers.
In-depth in the data, Piastry took out 23 points from the Noris throughout the season-away from the Britain’s 63-point deficit on the square, especially Australians also deprived the 15-digit champion.
On the other hand, Perez lost eight points to Noris, incorporating his pitstop-inspired fastest lap at the spa-francachamps (and he did not cost the varostapane throughout the season).
How to do Lawson? The level of his performance against Yuki Tsunoda in RB was encouraging, but he did not expect to match the speed and continuity of the Vastapane. He proved that he was not afraid of working hard with the red bull of Perez on the turf of Mexican’s house, but then he was proving a point (although he would not accept it) against the driver whose seat He was dying for With their future being safe, they will not need to be so strong against Vastapane – but McLaren can be expected to give hard time.
“Yes, in the context of not potentially not taking points from each other which is a bit easy for maximum, but you never know – Liam can come out and surprise all,” Piastry says. “I know how strong Liam is, I have raced against him for many years, but there are disadvantages and benefits, no matter what the situation is in that scenario.”
After five years from the 2020 Formula 3 title race, the stakes will be too much for both Oceanian drivers at this time.
When Lawson and Piastry fought in their F3 days, it will be at stake than this
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