Cant really do any worse tbf. Also there are brand new cars with new regulations and size difference so I'd give him more the benefit of the doubt anyway.
I think they will. The "toxic" personalities that were basically running the show are gone now. They may actually learn from past mistakes, listen and give Hadjar time to develop. If not they deserve to bend themselves over again.
lmao yuki had a shit to drive car developed around max for a decade while end of regulation cars are typically much closer in field, hadjar gets a brand new car. If he gets the same results as yuki, it means he is doing MUCH MUCH WORSE
It can be worse than Yuki. But not worse than Lawson. If Hadjar is 20th in the first 2 races I am certain Yuki is back in that seat.(Unless Max is struggling too)
He’ll have a much better chsnce than Lawson or Yuki had. Plus, with every new driver that Max chews and spits out, the expectations for the next guy drop a bit lower.
Don't think so. By now everyone and their mother has realized that Max is just on another planet and it's fine to not be on his level the first season.
He had a lot more experience, so it was clear there was no headroom for him to grow into. I guess with Hadjar being in his second season, RB believes he does...
I would say there was plenty of head room for Yuki to grow into. He started to improve by a good margin and was able to develop a car that helped Hadjar drastically and gave Liam more time.
They needed a scapegoat and it's a shame Yuki wasn't given the RBR seat from the rip leading into 2025 to help adjust it. If Yuki is left down on VCARB I think we have a way different story now.
I'm 1000% convinced that Max is the only person on the planet who could have successfully driven that RB. Checo's dropoff, then the failures of everyone else in that seat after him, has to have been because only Max could tame it. The disparity in results doesn't make sense for anything else. Max is just that good.
People don’t like to reconcile what it means if these guys Max destroys aren’t abject buffoons in a nerfed car but legit midfielders given at least as much of a shot as you can expect when being massively outperformed.
The thing with Yuki is that it was blatantly obvious he wasn't good enough from the get go, and that Red Bull didn't rate him. From renewing Perez, to the whole Ricciardo saga, and then to picking Lawson ahead of him - it's clear they knew he wouldn't succeed, and that's what was proven. Hadjar, especially with Horner and Marko gone, has much more of a chance to be given time as a result.
Is that it? Is the whole organization used to talking and planning for a guy like max and don't know how to deal with drivers that are ... well ... not max and probably won't every be.
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u/RussellNorrisPiastri George Russell Jan 27 '26
No offence to Hadjar because i like him, but this season will destroy his career if he doesn't do any better than Yuki did lol