The upper management(Kahn and Brazzo) was/is to blame. The decision to fire nagelsmann was premature at best and outright wrong at worst. Has been downhill ever since. There are suspect contract decisions as well with players on fat contracts and not performing at a level to justify that. Atleast the current board is trying to rectify it.

That was a truly ridonkulous lap

Wow Hamilton scrapping by the skin of his teeth

Mercs weakness in session planning exposed. Shit like this is why merc and McLaren haven’t overhauled RB yet

Merc didn’t fuel him up till the end

For whom tho. Do you think he is a placeholder until klopp¿?

Unbelievable by perez.

Lawson did perform better than Tsunoda last year, although very small sample size. Give 1.5 years to Lawson and see what they have in him. Keep Tsunoda at VCARB so the obligation to Honda is fulfilled

How are you claiming that Lawson performed better than yuki. Yuki out qualified him in all but one event(where he was blocked by max in the 1st run). In the races, yuki was a victim of poor luck (Monza DNS), bad strategy(Zandavoort) and people fucking crashing into him(Singapore). The 2 races (Japan and Qatar) which are actually comparable, yuki had, by a very slim margin, the better average finishing position. Lawson was pretty close (in the races at least) but claiming he was faster is just a lie.

Even if Lawson has a higher ceiling than tsunoda, throwing him to the Max infested waters of Red Bull with no preparation seems like the wrong move to me.

Red Bull is not continuing with Honda’s PU from 2026, why would they carry a Honda sponsored driver when there are better options available.

They wouldn’t but 2026 is a year and a half away. Tsunoda is the perfect no risk stop gap until that time. He is clearly not seen as a long term option by red bull so they can keep him in the car while Lawson, hadjar and possibly linblad gain F1 experience. If yuki performs at a high enough level, Red Bull can think about retaining him or else they can let him go and promote one of their youngsters who will have the benefit of having 1.5 years of experience. Yuki too would be open to this because he can move on to honda powered aston in 2026. This option has no downsides for red bull atleast in a sporting context.

India( force India days fans)

I think you are grossly overestimating the amount of fans checo has in India.

Yes yuki will bring no where near the sales that checo brings but red Bull will have to weigh that alongside the possible damage to brand value that comes with not finishing first