Piastri Has Already Proven McLaren Were Right to Drop Ricciardo 

Not really fired, Riccardo, more like paid him $20 mil to go away 🤣

​@@killerhurtalot danny meanwhile happy not to drive the 2023 McLaren

@@killerhurtalot Well you need to pay compensation more often than not if you fire someone So it’s exactly firing😂

@Sulaiman Abdul Rehman I know right. Getting paid to not drive a trash car this season...

​@@killerhurtalot At the expense of his F1 career

"Good Pace" When????

@@DefinitelyNotEmma Yesterday, he was on pace with Lando in Q3 through S3 and had understeer into a wet patch in Turn 10. From telemetry we can estimate he would have finished ~0.011s behind lando in P4 without that understeer in turn 10 after he had a purple mini sector through the last turn

@@FormulaDynasty Yeah, I've seen it. Prior to that he wasn't performing too well. However respect where respect is due, that was a good performance

@@FormulaDynasty Piastri should've been qualified P3.

@@mvd4436 nope. A little mediocre in fact.

The other massive plus no one mentions is that for a rookie at different tracks in different conditions he never bins it. He never costs the team repair money. Teams LOVE that

@@adrianalley700 Piastri only lost a front wing in Jeddah and a diffuser at Miami and they both werent his fault

@@gameofender4463 Lando seems to be handling the challenge Oscar has posed to him quite well I think.

@@gameofender4463 Well Oscar is a great talent so it's hardly a surprise. Plus the McLaren is a dog to drive!

He has testing

@@Allblue1 yes that helps but still being out for year and still be this close Lando is very impressive and shows his talent

@@justinwilliams9291 agreed

@@Allblue1 there’s a big difference between testing then putting it together on a race weekend

@@jameslindemann3139 Not really becuase you already understand the way the car behaves. So pushing is not a problem with a car you already accustomed to

Exactly what Vettel fans are doing right now with Max breaking his RB records and Alonso having a much bigger gap to Stroll than Seb did

We are hanging on

Just sad these shocking seasons are what new fans will remember of Danny ric when he's much better than this 😞

Daniel was indeed declining but so was the car

​@@cartierclips1126 gut the gap between Lando and Daniel /Lando and Oskar says it all...

I thought it was more painful to see him getting embarrassed every race weekend. At least when he’s out entirely people forget that and just remember the good stuff

@@scottmeredith3359 that's true

It don’t hurt me, he was brilliant but he just got lazy after Renault

Agreed. Sad to see Daniel gone. No driver has the good vibes Daniel brought to F1. But Piastri will do wonders for McLaren's morale.

Ric is now back on track :)

Head to head teammate quali pace difference is based on both drivers relative time from the same qualifying session, can't compare times from different sessions, I.e q2 and q3 cause of track evolution, new tyres etc.

Lando is an overconfident prick but true he’s not bad

@@nichenetwork9817 Your insult says more about your jealousy of someone with real talent who also happens to be a nice guy too.

Didn’t Lando break his car in Q2 after botching the chicane out the tunnel tho?

@@NewscasterNews4 Thats true ,thats why he did one less run to Oscar in Q2 but he was till fast enough to progress to Q3.

"his fanbase were unbearable" I think you're just seeing the wrong side of it. Most of the comments i have seen regarding Daniel leaving was actually quite positive & supporting of Oscar. Most of F1's fanbase is unbearable as the majority of the newer fans are drama farming and if their favourite driver isn't winning, then nobody can be happy. The real people that were the issue are the Daniel or Oscar haters, and alot of people regardless of if Daniel was their favourite driver, felt the need to jump to his defence. This also goes with Max haters, and Lewis haters. Anyone that actively hates on other drivers are the problem in the sport, i am a big Daniel fan but i am completely happy that another Aussie is now in the sport & I wish him all the best as he was clearly the right choice. It's a shame to see that his "fanbase" now has a bad representation for the minority of the comments that have been seen by others, whereas here down under i have seen nothing but love for both drivers.

​@@FishEyess im sure that theres a good side of the danny ric fanbase but last year it was unbeareble when all the drive to survive fans were banging mclaren when ricciardo was shit, ofc they were going to drop him.

@@nw2148 me too like Ricciardo. Wish he returned to F1 fulltime seat in 2026. Hopefully with Konnersport Global F1 Team.

I see where you’re coming from, but I think DR fan base were more upset by the fact that DR wasn’t been replaced by a proven driver but by a rookie which as we all know rookies are a gamble for any team. I like DR too, n when he first came into F1 he was up there in the top 5 drivers on the grid but imo I think that the talent on the current grid is far greater than what DR is and he’s just fallen behind them all. That isn’t to say he’s not a good driver, he is a good driver but he’s been outshone by the likes of max, Charles, Pierre, George n lando

Stroll showed as a teenager at Williams he's good enough for f1. He's just not good enough for a top team.

​@@yoshiuki__9589 not yet. His growth isn't as fast as ocons or russels. Stroll definitely deserves his seat in f1. He just needs to find his ground.

He’s just not cut out for a top team drive, and I don’t think he ever will be. He’s had 6 seasons to prove himself and has only done so a handful of times. It’s honestly a shame because he was actually really good in lower formula agaisnt Russel, Ocon, max, etc. His highs are really good, but he’s just not consistent enough over a season, 2020 checo finished 6th while stroll was 11th in the championship.

@@keramik1269 He wasn't growing at all, he had already reached his peak years ago and is well on his way in the declining phase.

Stroll is doing Pretty good this year so far

Logan isn't the best driver, but he's not Latifi. He's had some good moments so far though.

@@liukin95 he's not destroying his car regularly so yes he does have that going for him.

For reasons Logan was brought in a year earlier than planned, and considering that Williams' goals are long term, his first year goals are more likely to be consistent and not crash the car, which he's doing fine. He needs to be closer to Albon's pace for sure, but expecting a newbie to match Albon(who is part of the 2019 trio of highly rated rookies and has 2 seasons of experience) might be a bit too much.

That Williams has to be a absolute disaster to drive, even albons been having issues with it

Logan’s problem is racecraft, he’s basically a single lap merchant where he’s quick in it

Which channel?

​@@francescoenricoteofilo think he means cars with connor. That was an *awful* take 😂

@@spicykking2854 EVERY Cars with Connor take is an awful take, to be fair.

Most of his recent videos are made as clickbait with takes to get people talking in the comments, a fast way to get himself into the yt algorithm but also a faster way to make people to ignore his future videos

@@huehuehue7451 Are you talking about Aldas or that Connor guy who made the "Piastri is a Fraud" video a couple months ago?

you base head to head quali on the same session i.e Q2-Q2 not on different sessions like q2 and q3, because of track evolution, new tyres making you go faster in q3.

Mclaren were so confident he would do so well in Mclaren that they gave him 3 years. In Hindsight should've been two.

Under terms and conditions I cannot say what I want to say. So we'll wait and see if you are correct. About DR being able to get a permanent start in the future

Zack Brown didnt fancy him?? He paid DR £15 million a year, hugely more than what they paid Lando Norris... He was hired on a world champion salary and when he started putting in rookie level performance no wonder the person paying him felt less than enthusiastic...

I mean Lando was in 2nd during that Italy win, so it is not like Lando would have been unable to give Mclaren that, but okay.

Agree, he isn't close to Lando.

Absolutely - he’s still the same driver who thumped Ocon and beat Hulkenberg at Renault and the only one from the red bull stable to be able to push Verstappen - he just couldn’t drive that McLaren except on a few rare occasions due to how you have to brake and point the nose in corners. It was the right decision for everyone including Ricc to get him out of a car he couldn’t adapt to.

Definitely not generational, that word gets thrown around way too much. The only young driver on the current grid who deserves that label is Max.

@@Reaz399 ahh man your FOS. Fernando, Hamilton, Leclerc & Verstappen are all generational in their own right. But I’d put max on the second from bottom of that list as the RB car is jut ridiculous how fast it is. Put any three of those pads in that car and they would be dominating too. Btw I’m a Sainz man ….

@@F1-Passion Agreed on Fernando, Hamilton and Verstappen. Leclerc a bit of a stretch, too many mistakes IMO to be considered generational talent.

@@alejandroalmendarez2388 Actually your 💯 bro but his qualifying form can be next level but definitely making way too many mistakes and just blaming the car or the team. Like this weekend saying theirs something wrong with the left hand side etc totally agree bro

Reminds me of how norris was a rookie, no crashes or mistakes whilst keeping up the pace to your experienced driver(sainz) in this case norris the experienced driver.

I honestly can't remember a single mistake Oscar has made so far this year. Even on a wet Monaco as a rookie he was so clean.

People only like Daniel because haha funny man said something funny ha ha

Marko said that Ricciardo isn't even doing too impressively on the simulator. Doubt he'll get a seat next year at that rate.

​@@Sfcfan120 Exactly. While he has been a good lad, his humor isn't my cup of tea at all

That was the only race when Ric somehow put a top performance. And don't forget that the team asked Lando to not fight with Ric for the 1st place. It would be Lando's first grand prix win and he accepted the team's wish. Thats was a very humble decision from him.

@takatszsolt9740 that response is from an uneducated tabloid point of view. The telemetry and full team radio radio dialogue suggests a different tale. An experienced race winner manages his pace when in front to mitigate risk what is exactly what ric was doing. Lando asked to race but was denied to avoid incident. By asking to race does not mean he is going to beat him as you imply. You also see Dan put in the fastest lap of the race on the last lap which clearly demonstrates he could do more if required. Lando had his chance at race victory later that year and fluffed it under pressure. His team radio was all nerves. Look what happened today in Barcelona he buckled under pressure in third place and crashed. Certainly not a race winner yet and better get a move on before Piastri nails him. Anyway my argument is that McLaren are duds. The above are all facts.

there are some already ahahahahah

Pastry sucks , Ricardo was right to leave no use trying to drive the wheels off a unbalanced slow car

bet ya a BBQ'ed Prawn he aint getting in a faster car ... ever.

@@mutleyeng he was the only driver to give max a hard time .. or did you BBQ your memory of that already?

danny is only likeable, that is the only good thing about him.

actually this is Mclaren's fault for compromising 2022 reg's for 2021 car which I thought was a fatal mistake in the first place

didn't mclaren have either palou or o'ward as backup?? on the rest i agree

They would have I think. Ric had 2 seasons with McLaren and constantly underperfromed (dropped q1 when Norris reached q3 many times, he fighted at the bottom, when Norris almost always got points, etc.) If Piastri would stayed with Alpine, then McLaren just grabbed Gasly instead. That would be the only change, either way Ric dropped as it has.

He was never offered the seat at alpine. It was either Williams or mclaren.

What I found impressive was how he was 7 tenths off norris in three of the practice sessions in monaco which is pretty big gap and then suddenly out of nowhere just completely eradicates that deficit and is only 0.02s behind in quali.

You've gotta laugh when alpine now keep saying in hindsight gasly was actually the better option for alpine than piastri. Piastri would be rocking in that alpine if he got the seat their, given they are clearly faster car than mclaren.

A 1-2 driver dynamic is not useful in a midfield team like mclaren because midfield teams need all the points. Ricciardo very poor performance last year cost mclaren 4th place and 12M extra money

But this time both drivers are struggling which tells you it's the car not the driver. Norris consistently finished inside the top 7 whilst ricciardo outside the top 10 consistently.

@@henrywilliams8313 yeah the cheating thing still pisses me off, yes lando is struggling too, but you don’t see him making an illegal overtake and somehow getting away with it, it was on the tv feed, and it was replayed several times as the commentators sucked him off for how good the overtake was, how did no one see it, how didn’t the commentators notice, how didn’t the stewards see it, where was the penalty, I don’t get it, if this was max or Lewis cheating there way past someone at the front, we’d never hear the end of it from fans and it’d be an instant 30 second stop and go penalty but because it’s someone nobody cares about and it was for 10th it’s just allowed to slide, these new race dictators are blind, masi was better, shit Charlie whitings dead and he bet he still saw it and is pissed about it too

@@henrywilliams8313 also saying piastri is better at mclaren than riccardo was especially 6 races in is foolish as hell from aldas, riccardo won a race in his first year with the team, piastri hasn’t and definitely won’t, he’s not gonna get a win next year either and that’s not the car, the car riccardo won in wasn’t exactly great

@@roryevans4295 yeah need abit more data for sure, but so far he's much closer to norris than ricciardo was, could change we don't know yet. The race win was an outlier. Norris scored a massive 78% of 157 points the team scored in 2022. That was damning for ricciardo hence he left.

@@henrywilliams8313 idk man I’m just not seeing it which is a shame, he was a beast watching him in f3, f2 was a good showing, he got real lucky but everyone needs a lil luck, I just don’t see anything special about him in an f1 car yet, I feel like we could have pulled almost half the f2 grid in that car and they’d out perform Ricardo last year, I know it’s only been 6 races but I was sooo sure this guy was the next generational talent but I’m just not seeing anything special yet