Lance

[empty nacelle]

Its kinda unfair to pick Lance with the car he is stuck with rn

[main sequoia]

id say colapinto

or stroll

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Franco

[main sequoia]

cadillacs have done ok considering their car ig

like bottas did beat a haas in china

[lucid bramble]

Colapinto has not even been bad imo

[main sequoia]

yes (compared to the lowest bar possible in 2025) but even if hes been decent i doubt theres anyone whos been

worse

[radiant sapphire]

Underrated option but

Spun in China. Ass in Japan.

No reasonable conclusion in Australia due to quali issues

And… yeah generally nothing impressive (race wise)

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He's a bit of a whiner too

He cussed like a sailor when lindblad blocked him in japan

[main sequoia]

interesting one

was expecting you to say albon for the narrative

[twin frost]

I mean you are deducting a P3 in qualifying from the guy just because Max crashed

and based off what we've seen so far this season the RB22 isn't easily capable of stuff like that

but ok

imo it's franco, still almost nowhere near the pace of his teammate

[radiant sapphire]

Because qualifying doesn’t matter

He’s been half a second slower every race

[twin frost]

if qualifying doesn't matter, why do they have a fucking qualifying session then

with your logic p22 on the grid is as valuable as p1

[radiant sapphire]

P1 and finishing P11 is worth nothing

[twin frost]

well in that case you're just gasly in the 2021 qatar gp

but do you really think qualifying doesn't matter to a race result at all

there's only been 3 races this century won from below 15th on the grid iirc

germany 2000, japan 2005 and brazil 2024

in contrast, 456 races this century have been won from the first 2 rows on the grid alone

yes I calculated

so feel free to tell me again qualifying doesn't matter but I'm pretty damn sure it does

[radiant sapphire]

If you qualify P3 in the 3rd best car, 8 tenths off P1, sure, thats alright, but its not good enough to make up for losing half a second a lap to your teammate, and spinning by yourself

Which Hadjar did in the other 2 races

I know it wasn’t entirely his fault, but he was running in P5 before his car died and had no pace

He probably would’ve been scrapping with Bearman for P7, who was in a slower car

Ultimately, the guy hasn’t put it together on Sunday even once