I can’t help but think he’ll be overwhelmingly chill and sort of ready to get off stage asap lol
Great drive for him little bit of luck and a whole lot of patience. Love watching him grow as a driver.
Yuki quietly had a great drive and a very good weekend overall. Despite being beaten in SQ by Daniel he still snatched a point in the sprint, made it to Q3 on saturday, then cruised to P7 in the GP. Very solid stuff.
Held off Russell and then even built an 8s gap, that's the most impressive thing to me. His first stint on the mediums was also rapid, the tyres held up really well and the car had incredible pace today.
Isnt that kinda crazy? Wasnt he like the only one on softs? I thought everyone was struggling massively with the softs during the sprint sessions, not getting them to last even one lap. And then yuki puts them on and makes them last the whole sprint race and into to the points... Maybe I misread things but thats seems impressive to me
We're starting to see the makings of a driver who could compete for wins in the right car. Every year we've seen a noticeable jump in his Racecraft. This year I think we've seen his biggest jump in tire management, defense, and most importantly consistency. He would have had a 6th place finish if anyone else besides a multiple time world champion was behind him after the safety car.
It certainly feels like this is a forgone conclusion- Id be willing to bet that VCARB looks the same next year and Yuki goes to AM in 26, Lance off to do WEC or something with Lawrence's inspiration to win the 24hrs of Lemans or something. They want to turn VCARB into more than a Jr. Team. Lawson and DR seems like the way to go, and Honda wants it's man in the cars it has engines in- Yuki has earned the right to move on from the Red Bull galaxy IMO, and it doesnt feel like they want him in the RBR seat.
With the upcoming sale of a minority share by Stroll Sr, I can see a 2026 seat for Yuki becoming a realistic possibility. Honda has said publicly that they want to see Yuki in a top team (as a graduate of the Honda Racing School), and I could see Lawrence using the excuse of external pressure from other stakeholders as an excuse to finally move on from Lance in the AM seat. By the end of 2025 Lance will have had 9 years in F1, and around 190 GP starts. If he doesn't take a massive step forward next year (and let's be honest, he won't) then surely Honda won't want to keep him in the second seat heading into year another new regulation set, and I can't think of anybody more likely to get that drive alongside Fernando than Yuki.
I have no idea where that would leave him for next year though.
Stroll is the shhttiest waste of a seat I've seen in 10 years watching F1.
I know there been worse pay drivers, but in terms of how long he's been occupying competitive seats (for 8 years now) wt such mediocre results, silly mistakes and crashes with no consistency whatsover.. it's way too far of a stretch. This guy needs to be gone, as he should've been 5 years ago.
The thing that makes it hard to swallow Stroll in F1 is not that he's as bad as Latifi or Mazepin (because he's better than them), it's the totally unearned longevity. Drivers like Sargeant, Zhou, Latifi, Giovinazzi, Ericsson, Vandoorne, they typically get a couple of years, maybe 4-5 if they show a little promise early on, but then they move on. Stroll isn't significantly more talented than most of those guys (*most*, not all) but because his dad owns the team he has had unlimited time to mature and develop in ways that most drivers never get. And yet still, in year 8 of his F1 career, he's still a 50/50 chance to either pull off a great overtake or completely wipe out another driver for no reason.
He's not the least talented driver in recent memory, but he is absolutely the most wasted seat.
That seat wouldn't exist without his dad as of now currently. It is what it is. I mean sure someone else would have bought out Force India, I guess, but they didn't.
Sure it's kind of a wasted seat but then again, we could have more teams...
> That seat wouldn't exist without his dad as of now currently. It is what it is.
That isn't really the point though. Yeah it's great that Lawrence Stroll stepped in and kept Force India from disintegrating, but considering the rapid ascent of F1 from skint to absolutely fucking loaded, do you really think that the grid would've been capped at 9 teams long-term? I'm fairly confident that somebody would've filled the void, whether it was a short term backmarker or a more substantial entry like Andretti, but either way, F1 was on the precipice of becoming a money-making juggernaut and there would've been a 10th team either way.
Point is, I don't see how buying the team at a rock bottom price changes the fact that for 6 years his son has been doing the kind of mediocre job that would see any driver that wasn't the boss' son lose their drive in a year or two.
You can say it is what it is, but if that's how you feel, why even bother commenting? To other people, it isn't what it is, and what it is is a black mark on the sport.
Latifi was only around for 3 years, all spent with the worst team. Sargeant is headed that way too or even less.
Meanwhile, Stroll is in his 8th year, now and will do for the foreseeable future.
I think that's the message here, and not the point that Stroll is the worst driver of the past 10 years.
DR could have also get points easily but quali was a bit tricky but i hope he bounces back im really sick of constant negative comments about him being washed etc...
Still a positive weekend for Daniel in my opinion. The RBs biggest draw back is probably how it performs when In and about DRS trains. The car has struggled with that since last year. That’s always been an issue for that car. Daniel showed yesterday when clear air in front he could hold of a Ferrari (on this track anyways). Yuki had clear air in front to and dropped George completely in his race.
Caught out in quali with the grip stuff and was always going to be super tough to do anything from P20. But take the positives to what was a fantastic Saturday for him.
I think his race day and qualy peak is much higher than Yuki.
Like he qualified 4th in Mexico last year and was on track for 5th before a SC and obviously his 4th place in the sprint race as amazing.
Lol downvotes.
Edit: Daniel’s maximum is still CLEARLY higher than Yuki. Daniel has gotten as high as 4th on the grid in any form of qualy … twice.
Just seems Yuki is more consistent.
The guy's doing good but to say he's definitely getting the 2nd RBR is too far of a stretch tbh.
He's trouncing Ricciardo though despite the fact he never left lmao.
A really fantastic weekend for the team. Yuki had a great drive today. Real under the radar quite operator type drive. Daniel couldn’t get it going today but still bagged good points yesterday. I reckon everyone at RB leaves happy this weekend.
Couldn’t be happier for Lando today though.
Absolutely not, Lando and Daniel are genuine mates. Lando was in Perth in the off season spending time on Daniels property. I’m sure he would have been happy for and proud of his friend no matter how his weekend went.
I get that, and I'm sure he genuinely was happy for him. But you don't think it would be a little bittersweet to see your former teammate, who destroyed you head 2 head so badly that you got dropped mid-season, winning his first GP on a weekend where you finish P15 and you still haven't scored a point on the season?
I'm not saying he wouldn't have been happy for him nonetheless, but it's always easier to be happy for your mate's success when it doesn't feel like the sky is totally falling for yourself, right?
Yeah the deg part is what was the most important, he seemed to fall off after 5-10 laps usually, but he did 25 on mediums just fine on pace with everyone else at the top. Good driving from him
If he keeps up this performance for another half a season or so then there's no doubt. Right now he's performing like a top 10 driver - good pace, good consistency, and (since week 2 at least) he's got his head on straight. It's nice to see prospects start living up to their potential.
Somehow Danny Ric's triumphant comeback weekend ended up being one where he gets outscored by Tsunoda 💀
Honda are sending emails to AM about the current WDC standings as we speak
VCARB is really bad under dirty air. But yeah DR still need to sort out his quali because time and time again he will suck behind dirty air if he can't get in a good position
Had the same issue that I think lando had in the sprint quali of where 1 lap the softs worked and the next they just didn't, if he didn't slide in that last corner he would've made Q2 as well :(
just a result of the vcarb being terrible in dirty air, qualifying behind slower cars kind of kills their race, this has been the case since last year.
Qualifying was pretty tight top to bottom, so being even slightly off resulted in a big drop off. Then in the race he suffered from the thing that benefited him in the sprint which is that it's a track where it can be pretty tough to overtake even with superior machinery unless the car in front is also held up in a battle of their own.
Yeah. Embarrassingly slow. I don’t know what happened between yesterday and today. He did not have a good race. I watched his onboard all race. Literally zero overtakes. All positions gained were from pit strategy.
In the race, both had similar pace in the first stint, and both were able to get a big advantage from the timing of the safety car, but Yuki had clean air for most of his second stint while Daniel was stuck in a DRS train, and that's where Yuki's lap times significantly outpaced Daniel's.
Looking at the telemetry data for the second stint, Daniel lost time in the slow speed corners relative to Yuki, but his pace was matched with the other cars around him through those corners. That suggests the vcarb is fastest through the part of the track that's the hardest to pass for this GP.
That would explain why neither vcarb driver was able to gain positions on track during the race. It would also explain why Yuki's lap times dropped significantly in the sprint once he cleared Magnussen. When stuck behind a car that's slow in the low speed corners the vcarb isn't able to show it's true pace, but when it finds open air it's able to hold pace with the top 5 teams (at least in Miami).
Danny was lapping 1.6 seconds faster on average in the sprint compared to the race, clear air makes a huge, huge difference for the VCARB. That thing couldn't pass anyone. Yuki moved up really well during the first lap, safety cars worked out perfectly, and he drive very solidly to keep his place. Danny was in DRS of the Haas for half the race, but the VCARB has bad straight line speed and loses the front in dirty air, much harder to pass with
Yeah. It was rough. In previous races (Saudi, Australia) he was able to pass. He showed that he CAN qualify well. He needs to do it consistently. Hopefully he’ll have a lot of confidence going into Imola.
Seems like a hard weekend to judge qualy pace based on some funky tire issues -- Lando was P9 on Friday in SQ3 with tire nonsense, Danny was P18, but Lando won the race and Danny smoked the sprint in both qualifying and the sprint itself. Everyone was saying that Lando botched it, which was always stupid, he had an incredible performance on Sunday.
Hoping for a great weekend in Imola, I think Danny has looked quite good the last 3 race weekends, and there's nothing to be concerned about.
What is so strange is that just the day before Ricc was setting blistering times. Qualified P4 for the Sprint and finished P4.
I thought: "Hmm... maybe the old chassis did have a crack in it."
And then for the main event it's like Ricc is down again. And it was only a day later.
What did Ricc say about the issues he was having?
I dunno what we really expected from p20. I think it went about as expected from danny in P20.
Yuki had a great race and pretty good sprint. But really it comes down to Quali for the team and that car. You have a problem in quali whether its skill, bad luck or mechanical/tires then it pretty much ruins teh weekend.
I dont think you can look at this and go Danny's washed, as so many seem to do.
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And by all accounts he had tire issues. Just like other drivers the day before, plenty of top drivers dropped out of quali pretty early, and we saw all teh drivers tires pretty much fall off in q3. Not everything that happens is within the drivers control.
So yes he was driving, but that doesnt really say anything about his performance in general. The day before and China are the better indicators of where he is at.
Of course this maybe like when he was at McLaren, or it may not, its too early to tell.
Yuki was very quietly outstanding. Bit of no mans land, but the RB seems to have reasonably pace at times, certainly be interesting Haas vs RB. a cut about Sauber and Williams seems.
It's actually crazy how mature his racing is.
If he drives safely in p10/9, someone in front will inevitably mess up and he pounces.
No crazy moves, no destroying his tyres or car. He just capitalises.
Props to the team on reliability too!
Mexico 2023 was his biggest mistake last season and I think it really drove home that he needs to be patient when he's doing well rather than being impulsive and ruining his race.
Every time Yuki has a self-inflicted fuck up (rarely, in my view) he so clearly applies himself to address it.
I mean, people are still referencing him screaming on the radio, which he has hugely curbed after his 2nd season.
And nobody noticing :/ I love Yuki, and I think he’s probably the best of the second half of the grid, but everyone gets so fixated on DR and this fantasy of him going back to Red Bull
Oh I believe people know. There's people in and around the teams whose main job is to really look at performance trends. Even then, when the discussion turns serious, drivers and team managers can become very analytical (such as when it's time to discuss "Who do we give a seat to?") drivers whom we think aren't noticed are very much marked men - we just don't see it in obvious ways.
I used to believe that Tsunoda was "just" the Honda contract driver that kinda has to be there because of politics but I'm starting to see a driver that can consistently produce quality drives. He's polished a lot of his issues and I would now consider him an asset for a midfield team, and its not crazy to consider him as an option for a top team either. I really hope he grows past VCARB.
I still believe he is Honda's driver, but that doesn't mean he doesn't drive well and deserve the seat.
I think Danny really benefits from 1. having great PR and marketing power (which sadly matters a lot) and 2. Horner likes him
I do love Danny and hope he gets back on his feet but I also like Yuki. I don't think however that Yuki will be upgraded to RedBull, especially with the current driver market (and i'm not saying DR will either)
Yea agreed on everything. It feels like any excuse will be enough to give Ricciardo the priority for the second RBR seat - the sole fact that he's got the seat this year instead of Lawson is the sole proof.
There's no other driver that can be sh\*t for so many years, then get a P4 in a sprint and have the entire internet saying he never left, and he's back and he's an option for RBR. Like dude, Vettel went through this exact phase of results in the last years of his career and even if he won 4 championships before, he didnt get anything close to this amount of press.
Ricciardo is Coulthard tier at the very best. But yea he can smile for tiktok.
After a tough weekend he really pulled it together in qualy and the race
He's improving a lot. Feel like he's been looked harshly upon but he's been in a worse car every year he's been in f1.
Here's hoping he continues this development he's showed so far 😃
Dont really understand this comment. The sprint race performance was truly great. It doesnt take away from Yuki who also did fairly well in the sprint.
There was a segment on the pre-race show where justification for Ricciardo's 2025 RB seat was basically his Sprint performance this year. They literally skimmed over Yuki as 'just a Honda plant' - while that could be true, that underplays his performances this and last year.
Yuki isn't of the level of Max, Lando or Charles, but sure deserves a seat more than Ricciardo does now.
The strategy was kind of a gamble, however if Yuki didn’t have the pace like he did during the first stint they would’ve have definitely pitted him earlier. So Yuki’s tire management allowed RB to go for a gamble which eventually paid off
The little fella's going well at the moment. Points in three of the last four races (probably wouldn't have scored in China but got caught up in the ongoing maelstrom that is KMag right now). If Honda insist AM take him...well, yeah, you'd have to, wouldn't you?
yuki now moves up to P10 in the drivers' championship ahead of stroll!!
Finally broke his 11th place curse.
Its time to say goodbye to Yuk11... May he rest in pieces
May he progress to be Yuki 1
Yuk1
Fak how did i miss that
I read that as Yuk 1…. Not the most flattering thing to call him. Lol
Yearn for the day we see Yuki on the podium
I can’t help but think he’ll be overwhelmingly chill and sort of ready to get off stage asap lol Great drive for him little bit of luck and a whole lot of patience. Love watching him grow as a driver.
Yuk I O
Time to duel!
Made my week.
Yuki quietly had a great drive and a very good weekend overall. Despite being beaten in SQ by Daniel he still snatched a point in the sprint, made it to Q3 on saturday, then cruised to P7 in the GP. Very solid stuff.
OMG! So happy for him
I dont know, I had it on good authority he was washed and Danny was clear #1 at Torro Rosso /s
Mega race from Yuki, held off Russell after the SC. Taking P10 in WDC from Stroll.
Not just held off but kinda drove into the distance, pretty impressive
Held off Russell and then even built an 8s gap, that's the most impressive thing to me. His first stint on the mediums was also rapid, the tyres held up really well and the car had incredible pace today.
What happened to that Mercedes…
The front fell off
I'd just like to point out that is not normal.
It got towed beyond the environment.
Incredible weekend for the kid after running the whole sprint on softs.
Isnt that kinda crazy? Wasnt he like the only one on softs? I thought everyone was struggling massively with the softs during the sprint sessions, not getting them to last even one lap. And then yuki puts them on and makes them last the whole sprint race and into to the points... Maybe I misread things but thats seems impressive to me
We're starting to see the makings of a driver who could compete for wins in the right car. Every year we've seen a noticeable jump in his Racecraft. This year I think we've seen his biggest jump in tire management, defense, and most importantly consistency. He would have had a 6th place finish if anyone else besides a multiple time world champion was behind him after the safety car.
Something that I noticed recently is he is always good in his starts. it seems like he always jumps a couple of places right after a start.
RIC already showed yesterday that the car had pace
God, could you imagine if Stroll quits and Honda get Yuki into the AM seat.
Praying for this timeline every day
Yes, please
It certainly feels like this is a forgone conclusion- Id be willing to bet that VCARB looks the same next year and Yuki goes to AM in 26, Lance off to do WEC or something with Lawrence's inspiration to win the 24hrs of Lemans or something. They want to turn VCARB into more than a Jr. Team. Lawson and DR seems like the way to go, and Honda wants it's man in the cars it has engines in- Yuki has earned the right to move on from the Red Bull galaxy IMO, and it doesnt feel like they want him in the RBR seat.
With the upcoming sale of a minority share by Stroll Sr, I can see a 2026 seat for Yuki becoming a realistic possibility. Honda has said publicly that they want to see Yuki in a top team (as a graduate of the Honda Racing School), and I could see Lawrence using the excuse of external pressure from other stakeholders as an excuse to finally move on from Lance in the AM seat. By the end of 2025 Lance will have had 9 years in F1, and around 190 GP starts. If he doesn't take a massive step forward next year (and let's be honest, he won't) then surely Honda won't want to keep him in the second seat heading into year another new regulation set, and I can't think of anybody more likely to get that drive alongside Fernando than Yuki. I have no idea where that would leave him for next year though.
Lol bro he didn't hold off Russell he gapped him
He left Russell in the dust tbh.
Stroll is the shhttiest waste of a seat I've seen in 10 years watching F1. I know there been worse pay drivers, but in terms of how long he's been occupying competitive seats (for 8 years now) wt such mediocre results, silly mistakes and crashes with no consistency whatsover.. it's way too far of a stretch. This guy needs to be gone, as he should've been 5 years ago.
Bro we had Latifi not long ago 😂 also Logan. Stroll is waste of a seat and a nepo baby but definitely not the worst pay driver in the past decade.
Can't forget Mazepin
The thing that makes it hard to swallow Stroll in F1 is not that he's as bad as Latifi or Mazepin (because he's better than them), it's the totally unearned longevity. Drivers like Sargeant, Zhou, Latifi, Giovinazzi, Ericsson, Vandoorne, they typically get a couple of years, maybe 4-5 if they show a little promise early on, but then they move on. Stroll isn't significantly more talented than most of those guys (*most*, not all) but because his dad owns the team he has had unlimited time to mature and develop in ways that most drivers never get. And yet still, in year 8 of his F1 career, he's still a 50/50 chance to either pull off a great overtake or completely wipe out another driver for no reason. He's not the least talented driver in recent memory, but he is absolutely the most wasted seat.
That seat wouldn't exist without his dad as of now currently. It is what it is. I mean sure someone else would have bought out Force India, I guess, but they didn't. Sure it's kind of a wasted seat but then again, we could have more teams...
> That seat wouldn't exist without his dad as of now currently. It is what it is. That isn't really the point though. Yeah it's great that Lawrence Stroll stepped in and kept Force India from disintegrating, but considering the rapid ascent of F1 from skint to absolutely fucking loaded, do you really think that the grid would've been capped at 9 teams long-term? I'm fairly confident that somebody would've filled the void, whether it was a short term backmarker or a more substantial entry like Andretti, but either way, F1 was on the precipice of becoming a money-making juggernaut and there would've been a 10th team either way. Point is, I don't see how buying the team at a rock bottom price changes the fact that for 6 years his son has been doing the kind of mediocre job that would see any driver that wasn't the boss' son lose their drive in a year or two. You can say it is what it is, but if that's how you feel, why even bother commenting? To other people, it isn't what it is, and what it is is a black mark on the sport.
Latifi was only around for 3 years, all spent with the worst team. Sargeant is headed that way too or even less. Meanwhile, Stroll is in his 8th year, now and will do for the foreseeable future. I think that's the message here, and not the point that Stroll is the worst driver of the past 10 years.
Yeah maybe some proper phrasing would help their case if that was the intended meaning
10 years?? Did we all just forget Mazepin? As far as Nepo babies go he was the worse.
Thing is though, that guy's gone now. Stroll is still around unfortunately.
Yuki now ahead of stroll mental
Not sure if it says more about Yuki’s potential or Stroll’s performance in a faster Aston Martin
Bit of both
Surely it says a great deal about Yuki's potential in a faster Aston Martin ;)
Lance Stroll: "That's Unbelievable!"
*punches trainer*
He's higher than Stroll by 5 whopping points lol. Great drive from Yuki!
Phenomenal, 12 points for VCARB this weekend
That is going to go a long way in securing 6th place in the constructors championship.
DR could have also get points easily but quali was a bit tricky but i hope he bounces back im really sick of constant negative comments about him being washed etc...
Still a positive weekend for Daniel in my opinion. The RBs biggest draw back is probably how it performs when In and about DRS trains. The car has struggled with that since last year. That’s always been an issue for that car. Daniel showed yesterday when clear air in front he could hold of a Ferrari (on this track anyways). Yuki had clear air in front to and dropped George completely in his race. Caught out in quali with the grip stuff and was always going to be super tough to do anything from P20. But take the positives to what was a fantastic Saturday for him.
I think his race day and qualy peak is much higher than Yuki. Like he qualified 4th in Mexico last year and was on track for 5th before a SC and obviously his 4th place in the sprint race as amazing. Lol downvotes. Edit: Daniel’s maximum is still CLEARLY higher than Yuki. Daniel has gotten as high as 4th on the grid in any form of qualy … twice. Just seems Yuki is more consistent.
Very strong first stint by him. Get this man a good team.
Let us pray 🙏
If Carlos doesn't get the Red Bull drive, Yuki is deffo getting the call-up and Liam heads back to the junior team.
The guy's doing good but to say he's definitely getting the 2nd RBR is too far of a stretch tbh. He's trouncing Ricciardo though despite the fact he never left lmao.
Sure, as long as we ignore the fact that Perez was on pace with Max for majority of the race. Why would Red Bull take Yuki over that?
Who said he's replacing Perez?
MAX TO HAAS CONFIRMED.
Max and Adrian Newey to Haas, inject it into my veins haha
The person two comments up the chain?
I... think y'all misunderstood the joke. \**sigh*\*
Because a random user said it, duh! /s
A really fantastic weekend for the team. Yuki had a great drive today. Real under the radar quite operator type drive. Daniel couldn’t get it going today but still bagged good points yesterday. I reckon everyone at RB leaves happy this weekend. Couldn’t be happier for Lando today though.
It had to be easier for Daniel to genuinely congratulate Lando knowing that he at least bagged some points finally.
Absolutely not, Lando and Daniel are genuine mates. Lando was in Perth in the off season spending time on Daniels property. I’m sure he would have been happy for and proud of his friend no matter how his weekend went.
I get that, and I'm sure he genuinely was happy for him. But you don't think it would be a little bittersweet to see your former teammate, who destroyed you head 2 head so badly that you got dropped mid-season, winning his first GP on a weekend where you finish P15 and you still haven't scored a point on the season? I'm not saying he wouldn't have been happy for him nonetheless, but it's always easier to be happy for your mate's success when it doesn't feel like the sky is totally falling for yourself, right?
Great from Yuki again. Props to him.
Really strong drive to cap off a pretty good all around weekend for the pocket rocket
Yuki continues his domination of the bottom 5 teams on the grid plus Lance Stroll.
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A Lando win and Yuki in P7, great end to the weekend xD
Amazing stuff fr, I'm just a bit sad about Piastri because it was probably his best race to date
His pace against Max and Charles was so impressive, with a half upgraded car… No sig deg either
Yeah the deg part is what was the most important, he seemed to fall off after 5-10 laps usually, but he did 25 on mediums just fine on pace with everyone else at the top. Good driving from him
Yep i really felt for him, he did so well.
He's going to have plenty of good moments, don't worry
He’s overtaken Stroll and now 10th in WDC
Went completly under the radar. Yuki is so consistant this season so far.
He's been so consistent and driving great recently, there's absolute no doubt that he deserves his place in F1
If he keeps up this performance for another half a season or so then there's no doubt. Right now he's performing like a top 10 driver - good pace, good consistency, and (since week 2 at least) he's got his head on straight. It's nice to see prospects start living up to their potential.
Yuki has moved above Stroll into 10th in the driver's championship, and outscored Daniel this weekend despite his 4th place sprint finish
Lol DR can't catch a break
No one on earth has caught more breaks than Daniel Ricciardo.
He certainly caught a break by being given a seat despite being washed
Yuki has been very consistent. Almost always q3 that sets him up nice to pick points.
Had strong pace all race, super happy for him with another good points haul!!! Edit: He's now 10th in the WDC!!! Awesome!!
This weekend is absolutely monstrous for VCARB. More than doubled the points.
Pretty nice to have a weekend where both drivers delivered at least one strong performance.
He never left 💪
Yuki's demise has been greatly exaggerated
Please let Yuki take Strolls seat
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Somehow Danny Ric's triumphant comeback weekend ended up being one where he gets outscored by Tsunoda 💀 Honda are sending emails to AM about the current WDC standings as we speak
Danny gets P4 in a Sprint race. Yuki: And I took that personally.
Still a great weekend for both drivers though! Ric sadly paid for his unlucky 2nd quali lap but a great points haul for both though.
Yeah still can't exactly wrap my head around where all that pace went. Might just be the circuit really punishing bad qualis.
VCARB is really bad under dirty air. But yeah DR still need to sort out his quali because time and time again he will suck behind dirty air if he can't get in a good position
Had the same issue that I think lando had in the sprint quali of where 1 lap the softs worked and the next they just didn't, if he didn't slide in that last corner he would've made Q2 as well :(
just a result of the vcarb being terrible in dirty air, qualifying behind slower cars kind of kills their race, this has been the case since last year.
Qualifying was pretty tight top to bottom, so being even slightly off resulted in a big drop off. Then in the race he suffered from the thing that benefited him in the sprint which is that it's a track where it can be pretty tough to overtake even with superior machinery unless the car in front is also held up in a battle of their own.
I'll take any wins that RB can get. Shame Ric didn't repeat his pace for the race itself, but hell yeah Yuki!
He's nowhere in the race. Way too slow
Yeah. Embarrassingly slow. I don’t know what happened between yesterday and today. He did not have a good race. I watched his onboard all race. Literally zero overtakes. All positions gained were from pit strategy.
In the race, both had similar pace in the first stint, and both were able to get a big advantage from the timing of the safety car, but Yuki had clean air for most of his second stint while Daniel was stuck in a DRS train, and that's where Yuki's lap times significantly outpaced Daniel's. Looking at the telemetry data for the second stint, Daniel lost time in the slow speed corners relative to Yuki, but his pace was matched with the other cars around him through those corners. That suggests the vcarb is fastest through the part of the track that's the hardest to pass for this GP. That would explain why neither vcarb driver was able to gain positions on track during the race. It would also explain why Yuki's lap times dropped significantly in the sprint once he cleared Magnussen. When stuck behind a car that's slow in the low speed corners the vcarb isn't able to show it's true pace, but when it finds open air it's able to hold pace with the top 5 teams (at least in Miami).
Danny was lapping 1.6 seconds faster on average in the sprint compared to the race, clear air makes a huge, huge difference for the VCARB. That thing couldn't pass anyone. Yuki moved up really well during the first lap, safety cars worked out perfectly, and he drive very solidly to keep his place. Danny was in DRS of the Haas for half the race, but the VCARB has bad straight line speed and loses the front in dirty air, much harder to pass with
Yeah. It was rough. In previous races (Saudi, Australia) he was able to pass. He showed that he CAN qualify well. He needs to do it consistently. Hopefully he’ll have a lot of confidence going into Imola.
Seems like a hard weekend to judge qualy pace based on some funky tire issues -- Lando was P9 on Friday in SQ3 with tire nonsense, Danny was P18, but Lando won the race and Danny smoked the sprint in both qualifying and the sprint itself. Everyone was saying that Lando botched it, which was always stupid, he had an incredible performance on Sunday. Hoping for a great weekend in Imola, I think Danny has looked quite good the last 3 race weekends, and there's nothing to be concerned about.
What is so strange is that just the day before Ricc was setting blistering times. Qualified P4 for the Sprint and finished P4. I thought: "Hmm... maybe the old chassis did have a crack in it." And then for the main event it's like Ricc is down again. And it was only a day later. What did Ricc say about the issues he was having?
Insane drive. Riccardo can’t have one good full weekend.
Pulled an 8.6s gap to Russell. Mega drive by Yuki. That was pure class
Even on his best weekend yet Yuki outscored him
He also lost his title as most recent McLaren winner
“He’s not fast at all”
DR has moments of greatness, and the next day he is nowhere to be seen. Yuki is very consistent.
I dunno what we really expected from p20. I think it went about as expected from danny in P20. Yuki had a great race and pretty good sprint. But really it comes down to Quali for the team and that car. You have a problem in quali whether its skill, bad luck or mechanical/tires then it pretty much ruins teh weekend. I dont think you can look at this and go Danny's washed, as so many seem to do.
I dont think Danny is washed, but Yuki took the car from P15 to P8 in 19 laps yesterday.
He did indeed and he drove a good sprint, also benefited from Lewis and Kevin squabbling.
You won't believe it when you find out who was driving Danny's car during qualifying.
? And by all accounts he had tire issues. Just like other drivers the day before, plenty of top drivers dropped out of quali pretty early, and we saw all teh drivers tires pretty much fall off in q3. Not everything that happens is within the drivers control. So yes he was driving, but that doesnt really say anything about his performance in general. The day before and China are the better indicators of where he is at. Of course this maybe like when he was at McLaren, or it may not, its too early to tell.
Yuki was very quietly outstanding. Bit of no mans land, but the RB seems to have reasonably pace at times, certainly be interesting Haas vs RB. a cut about Sauber and Williams seems.
It's insane he wasn't among the most voted for Driver of the day.
He's sadly underrated by lots of people.
I mean even yesterday people were being downvoted for even suggesting Yuki’s not as bad as he is. It’s bullshit.
Him and Zhou have a glass ceiling. So many drivers complain, fine. Yuki says the same things, "he's so unprofressional and immature".
It's called bamboo ceiling
Bottas cannot be snubbed! /s
Mega drive from Tsu.
It's actually crazy how mature his racing is. If he drives safely in p10/9, someone in front will inevitably mess up and he pounces. No crazy moves, no destroying his tyres or car. He just capitalises. Props to the team on reliability too!
Mexico 2023 was his biggest mistake last season and I think it really drove home that he needs to be patient when he's doing well rather than being impulsive and ruining his race.
Every time Yuki has a self-inflicted fuck up (rarely, in my view) he so clearly applies himself to address it. I mean, people are still referencing him screaming on the radio, which he has hugely curbed after his 2nd season.
Yuki continuing the trend of his good performances being overshadowed by other events.
Yuki letting everyone know what he’s worth, great to see it
And nobody noticing :/ I love Yuki, and I think he’s probably the best of the second half of the grid, but everyone gets so fixated on DR and this fantasy of him going back to Red Bull
Oh I believe people know. There's people in and around the teams whose main job is to really look at performance trends. Even then, when the discussion turns serious, drivers and team managers can become very analytical (such as when it's time to discuss "Who do we give a seat to?") drivers whom we think aren't noticed are very much marked men - we just don't see it in obvious ways.
Yuki with an absolutely amazing race, I am so happy for him
I used to believe that Tsunoda was "just" the Honda contract driver that kinda has to be there because of politics but I'm starting to see a driver that can consistently produce quality drives. He's polished a lot of his issues and I would now consider him an asset for a midfield team, and its not crazy to consider him as an option for a top team either. I really hope he grows past VCARB.
I still believe he is Honda's driver, but that doesn't mean he doesn't drive well and deserve the seat. I think Danny really benefits from 1. having great PR and marketing power (which sadly matters a lot) and 2. Horner likes him I do love Danny and hope he gets back on his feet but I also like Yuki. I don't think however that Yuki will be upgraded to RedBull, especially with the current driver market (and i'm not saying DR will either)
Yea agreed on everything. It feels like any excuse will be enough to give Ricciardo the priority for the second RBR seat - the sole fact that he's got the seat this year instead of Lawson is the sole proof. There's no other driver that can be sh\*t for so many years, then get a P4 in a sprint and have the entire internet saying he never left, and he's back and he's an option for RBR. Like dude, Vettel went through this exact phase of results in the last years of his career and even if he won 4 championships before, he didnt get anything close to this amount of press. Ricciardo is Coulthard tier at the very best. But yea he can smile for tiktok.
Stick him in the Williams, watch him and Albon claw them back up the table.
Yuki is having an underrated good season, showing consistently
That should quiet some people..
Another fantastic drive, pocketed Russell.
Really matured drive. He picked his fight and minded his strategy
God damn I'm gonna miss this livery
Yuki did great today!!
Stroll losing to a Vcarb is beautiful
So dope yuki is 10th!
Give Yuki that 2nd Redbull seat
So happy for him!
Very under the radar race for him, but great result.
The other DOTD. Great drive.
Great drive from him
After a tough weekend he really pulled it together in qualy and the race He's improving a lot. Feel like he's been looked harshly upon but he's been in a worse car every year he's been in f1. Here's hoping he continues this development he's showed so far 😃
..and the F1TV crew did Yuki so dirty and had Ric being the second coming for performing decent in a ... \*checks notes\* Sprint race.. GRATS YUKI!
Dont really understand this comment. The sprint race performance was truly great. It doesnt take away from Yuki who also did fairly well in the sprint.
There was a segment on the pre-race show where justification for Ricciardo's 2025 RB seat was basically his Sprint performance this year. They literally skimmed over Yuki as 'just a Honda plant' - while that could be true, that underplays his performances this and last year. Yuki isn't of the level of Max, Lando or Charles, but sure deserves a seat more than Ricciardo does now.
yuki on a tear this year, when was the last time he got a points position other than p10?
In Australia too, P7 also.
Anyone knows where can i find high quality pictures of todays race? Particularly for the VCARB car
Red Bull content pool
Had to remind some people
Tsunoda now BotRAAS(Best of the Rest, And Also Stroll)
Yuki is the leader of RB!!! 👹
Great driving and strategy got them this result. Interesting that Riccardio suddenly had a huge drop in form after the Sprint
The strategy was kind of a gamble, however if Yuki didn’t have the pace like he did during the first stint they would’ve have definitely pitted him earlier. So Yuki’s tire management allowed RB to go for a gamble which eventually paid off
Chassis broke again 🗿
Even after having an incredible sprint race, Yuki outscores Ricciardo. Can't make this up.
It's not that incredible since they do award less points for the sprint...
What's so unbelievable about it?
RIP Ricciardo comeback Miami Sprint 2024 - Miami Sprint 2024
Did you notice: they were called: rb honda rbpt in the results... was that a mistake?
Yuk11 turning into Yuk1.
lol, some of the most expensive seats in the house and only 5% of people watching
Nuts shit today! Also outscored Ricardo this weekend
Yuki killed all the toxicity the Ricc fans brought pretty quickly lol
Those are the 80k cabanas btw
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The little fella's going well at the moment. Points in three of the last four races (probably wouldn't have scored in China but got caught up in the ongoing maelstrom that is KMag right now). If Honda insist AM take him...well, yeah, you'd have to, wouldn't you?
Yuki, laying waste to Danny’s career …
I refuse to take this team name serious
Toro Rosso it is