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Bahrain: after entirely missing pre season testing due to covid daniel barely had any time in the car and he missed one of the practice sessions bc his team couldnt get his car going. qualified p18. finished p14 ahead of his teammate. The car was shit. He was still being positive about it.

Jeddah: tom stallard fails to inform daniel that the car behind him is on a hot lap during a practice session in what happens to be one the most dangerous tracks on the calendar. daniel qualified p12 right behind his teammate but had to take a three place grid penalty for impeding ocon in fp3 thank to tom stallard. during the race daniel was running in points when he had to swap positions with his teammate and later retired from the race due to mechanical issues.

Melbourne: daniel once again gets shitty qualifying strategy. qualified p7. finished p6. he was asked not to overtake his teammate when he started losing power. wonder what would have happened if the roles were reversed oh wait I actually do know what would have happened (jeddah 2022)

Imola: shitty qualifying strategy once again. tom stallard is showing incompetency once again. lol what's new? qualified p6 after only getting one lap. he made a mistake and had a first lap incident with carlos which was declared a racing incident by the race directors and yet it didn't stop him from apologising to everyone and their mother for it. (btw norris getting a podium bc sainz crashed and leclerc spun and merc were having a particularly rough weekend doesn't make mcalren a podium winning car)

Miami: tom stallard once again. on a new and dangerous track. couldn't get his car going in q2. barely got a lap. shitty race strategy as always. finished p13.

Barcelona: made it to q3 but couldn't improve on his lap time bc he didn't have any tyres left and his team's strategy for his qalifying was that they totally didn't expect him to make it to q3. the race strategy speaks for itself. had to swap position positions with his teammate yet again. and was got a set of used softs after very clearly stating that he didn't want them.

and this is just from the top of my head I'm sure there is so much more. mclaren made a shit car and the least they could do was get the strategy right but they have a history of being shit at that too. so maybe just maybe instead of putting blame on daniel their ceo needs to get his shit together and hire better ppl?

oh god….. *takes big gulps* here goes nothing

the combination of rbr dan when he was peak whore (affectionate) is deadly and this photo in particular *loud barking*

any time he works out with his itty bitty shorts cures my depression, pays my bills, we all thrive

renault dan in bahrain was something else.. when he was playing footy at the paddock and his shirt would rise mhmm..

the fact that this was unexpected, how he has multiple lv shorts that i’ve been frothing over since that dts scene in abu dhabi, then he tweets “if you got em flaunt them” - he’s insane

i may or may have not have played this video in an unhealthy amount of times to date…. that post monaco win was just *chefs kiss*

he is so loved and i hope he knows that

here’s the idiot :)

it just makes me think of what happened to stoffel (also at the hands of zb’s managing team let’s not forget) in 2018, where the team were talking with carlos and lando (“It’s not easy to drive at your best when you know the team is negotiating with other drivers behind your back,”), but also with the internal politics within the team (Asked a few months later if McLaren’s focus on Alonso had hampered his own career, Vandoorne told Ziggo Sport: “Yes. Unfortunately, I have never been able to tell 99 per cent of what happened.” It is a point of view the 29-year-old stands by. “You didn’t see everything that happened behind the scenes, all the politics,” GPBlog reports him as having told Brussels daily Dernière Heure.).

also its important to remember that this is the team that blamed honda for the fact they were so slow during the mclaren-honda years, then when they switched to renault it became clear that the chassis was the problem, but rather than admitting the car wasn’t good enough, got rid of their driver. the whole situation is repeating itself all over again, as mclaren once again produced an underperforming car. unlike with honda, its not as if they can blame the merc engine now bc mercedes’ factory team is the benchmark for that engine and is a semi-frontrunning car, whereas the mclaren tends to be fifth best but still off the pace from the front. it’s not hard to see that mcl over promised this year, and have only admitted that a couple of times (in fact i only think i’ve seen as talk about it, zb doesn’t seem too have addressed the issue at all).

tldr: the team seems incapable of admitting when they as a team have fallen short, rather blaming others for their failings, and this has become a repeating pattern of the last few years. honda, stoffel and daniel are all victims of this, even alonso, magnussen and perez to a point, and i wonder who or what comes next

https://www.planetf1.com/news/stoffel-vandoorne-mclaren-politics/