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Originally Posted by kingfc22
Really good move for Red Bull. Like PM said, this should give Red Bull a lot more opportunities to battle with Mercedes next year. With Albon, it was always two cars vs. one and Red Bull always had to react vs. taking a proactive approach to pit strategy.
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He still has to get on with the car, which in essence will be very similar and very little wiggle room to adjust it to his liking due to a mandated development freeze/limit for next year due to Covid (in 2022 there wil be very different rules, which were originally planned for 2021 but postponed due to the pandemic).
Not that Red Bull does that anyway, it's all Verstappen all the time. Friend of mine worked as a racing mechanic (up to what is now Formula 2) and will go on and one how you (well, if you know that stuff) can see how fundamentally different the Red Bull is designed and works/behaves from every other car on the grid in it's characteristics. Similar to Bottas, Albon lacks that little bit of speed without straining the tyres to overcome both car's characteristics when running behind other cars.
Not like Verstappen isn't complaining about it as well, but there is reasonable doubt that anybody else could perform near to their 100% in there.
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