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Originally Posted by Great68
There was an interview with one of the teams' engineers that I read a while back. They basically debunked this idea that they design the car around one driver's driving style. They said they design the car to be the fastest, period.
I think this year's Red Bull is compromised in some way that Max is able to compensate and drive around, rather than it was designed solely for his driving style.
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Yeah, it's more about "pain" tolerance - ie, they can make a car theoretically faster but it gets harder and harder to drive as that happens and some drivers just can't live with that difficulty. It seems this generation of car has a lot of diva like behaviours - the RB is the worst but even the McLaren, Ferrari, and Mercedes have very peaky behaviours from one track to the next.
I've not been a fan of this generation of cars - they seem to have too narrow an operating window for the different driving styles that are out there so we're not really seeing great head to head competition.