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Originally Posted by SenorFunkyPants
Fair comment...except why give your new driver with little experience in your car a completely different set up to your #1 driver.
Why not simply give him the same set up as Verstappen as it was already proving pretty successful.
But no they gave him an already pointy car (that was not to his taste) and made it even harder for him to drive by considerably reducing its downforce.
Not for a couple of races to see it was to his taste but for pretty much every race in the season.
Surely they could have tried him out with Verstappens set up for a few races..rather than watch him under perform race after race after race.
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Because the set-up gave the driver better lap times. If a higher downforce setting had worked for Alex then RBRH would have used it. Does anyone really belief a team spends millions to develop the best car possible and then use a set-up which gives a driver a lower lap time than they can achieve with a different setting. Just because one setting works for Max it is incorrect to assume it is the best/fastest overall setting for a team mate. I will accept that RBRH may have developed the car in 2020 to better suit Max’s driving style and preferences/strengths, many new drivers have to face this scenario (design being influenced by lead driver).