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Originally Posted by MJE60
So, Red Bull Racing Honda used different down force settings for different drivers. One setting gave a higher top speed, the other better traction. To suggest the team did this solely to damage their no.2 driver, presumably therefore also sacrificing potential podiums for their no.1 driver, was for what reason? Christian Horner’s frustration at having to manage strategy against two Mercedes cars, without Albion being able to cover Verstappen was noticeable on more than one occasion. I would suggest that firstly, if RBRH had wanted shot of Alex, they would simply have replaced him and secondly the more likely explanation, a lower downforce setting gave Alex better overall lap times and his failings were due to not being able to handle the pressure.
Every good conspiracy theory has to have a few supporting facts, I struggle to see a single one in the theory that Red Bull deliberately screwed Albion, because no-one would buy the line that RBRH did it unintentionally and through incompetence. Every driver will have slightly different set-up preferences to their team mate, some minor and some major, downforce is just one of them.
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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.