Perez, The Elephant in the Room??
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MustangGT said:
deadslow said:
well, they must calculate Perez will do enough to bring both championships.
The disappointment of the afficienados is more accurately described as the non-stop whining of Hammo fans. You know it's true.
Methinks it is you, not Paul, that is confused. You brought up Hamilton yesterday(Thursday) at 12:29, nobody else did.The disappointment of the afficienados is more accurately described as the non-stop whining of Hammo fans. You know it's true.
deadslow said:
MustangGT said:
deadslow said:
well, they must calculate Perez will do enough to bring both championships.
The disappointment of the afficienados is more accurately described as the non-stop whining of Hammo fans. You know it's true.
Methinks it is you, not Paul, that is confused. You brought up Hamilton yesterday(Thursday) at 12:29, nobody else did.The disappointment of the afficienados is more accurately described as the non-stop whining of Hammo fans. You know it's true.
TheDeuce said:
They're obviously not serious about WCC. Maybe they win it, maybe they don't.. if they don't it'll be Perez's fault for sure. Do they care? Probably not - its about $7m difference in prize fund, Perez reportedly carries sponsorship of $40m. The Red Bull brand doesn't have road cars to sell so WCC value is further reduced for them.
They sell fizzy drinks, the best way to do that is to have Max looking like a God, nothing else matters. The subsequent drinks sales attributable to F1 participation alone dwarf the sort of money we're talking about in F1 championship terms.
Max is no doubt happy to have a team mate he leaves for dirt each weekend. The marketing men won't mind Max being made to look unbelievably good either.
I'm sure there are multiple ways they could eject Perez over the next two years should they wish to. But it's not 'hard to justify' why they've maintained the status quo for now. It's actually very easy to make sense of how it's justified.
People just don't like it because it's got nothing to do with racing and everything to do with marketing - but that's the reality, across much of F1.
Pretty much how I see it, and more succinctly put.They sell fizzy drinks, the best way to do that is to have Max looking like a God, nothing else matters. The subsequent drinks sales attributable to F1 participation alone dwarf the sort of money we're talking about in F1 championship terms.
Max is no doubt happy to have a team mate he leaves for dirt each weekend. The marketing men won't mind Max being made to look unbelievably good either.
I'm sure there are multiple ways they could eject Perez over the next two years should they wish to. But it's not 'hard to justify' why they've maintained the status quo for now. It's actually very easy to make sense of how it's justified.
People just don't like it because it's got nothing to do with racing and everything to do with marketing - but that's the reality, across much of F1.
Now, back to the "Perez, The Elephant in the Room??" and poignantly deadslow DumBo show...
rallycross said:
I said before what were they thinking to resign him so early in the season as he’s shown before he falls asleep there was zero need to sing him up that early he wasn’t in any danger of going to a rival team and better faster drivers were available all very strange.
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