Scott Mitchell-Malm
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 22 Jun
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So I wonder how much that links to your point, Mark, about Russell struggling generally with the lower grip stuff anyway.
And then if there's kind of a tyre issue on top of that, then we're kind of getting into the Oscar Piastri territory of that third of the season last year where the title challenge unraveled because you've got...
an underlying limitation or weakness there anyway which might mean in let's say quote unquote normal circumstances he'd be a tenth or two off Antonelli just because it's not quite there but when you then have an extra layer on top of that with the way that impacts the tyres and the doom cycle you get into if the tyres aren't working properly that suddenly snowballs instead of being a tenth or two adrift which I would say is the normal gap Antonelli
between really good drivers that are struggling versus really good drivers that are on it, it becomes half a second or more, which is usually something we're not accustomed to seeing.
gradually that's what will reveal a driver not where they are in any one moment or over a run of a few races yeah and it's it's also an interesting function of the fact that it's another intra-team fight as well because when we had you know apart from the fact that Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton are two of the greatest drivers of all time when they were fighting each other in 2021 for example each would have weekends through that year and Lewis had a few more than Max where
There were mistakes or imperfect performances or whatever.
But those just end up as a narrative.
They get grouped into it being a car thing because it's one car versus a different car.
And I'm not to say that that was or wasn't the case.
But you just end up with slightly less of a focus on how the driver kind of gets impacted by some of the variables we've ended up talking about over the last couple of seasons.
Because when you had Norris versus Piastri in the same McLaren...
Having different pros and cons through the year, depending on the circumstance, the circuit type, the driving demand, whatever.
And now we're seeing it again for Russell Antonelli.
It's definitely a conversation that I don't think we've had very often in the last, I would say, 10 years.
Probably since the Nico Rosberg-Hamilton fight at Mercedes, because it hasn't been...
It hasn't been as strong a variable because there's been other stuff, you know, Hamilton versus Vettel years when he was at Ferrari, for example.
There are bigger factors behind the way the battle plays out, whereas now you're getting really into the finer details of the driving demands, the styles, the consequences either way.
So the conversation shifts.
It's a different conversation for us to have.
It's a different conversation for fans to have.
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