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I love how now that Piastri is underperforming people hate him. People were praising him before because he was stopping Lando from winning. Don’t get me wrong there are better drivers than Piastri but he’s only in his third year and he’s under pressure
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Anonymous 2d

He definitely doesn’t have the mentality to be one of the greats but I still think he has room to improve and win at least one world championship if it’s not this year than sometime in the next regulations.

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Anonymous 2d

I still love Piastri, I just feel more disappointed in his past races. It feels more like he’s given up, or something happened because he’s losing 0.1-0.3 seconds per lap to Lando in literally every segment of the weekend it feels

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2d

Also I don’t want to make it seem like I hate Lando. I think it’s stupid most people only liked Piastri because he was the McLaren driver who wasn’t Lando

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

If Lando wins, I’ll celebrate it, but a lot of the teams calls of saying there’s a “double #1 driver” mentality has left a sour taste for some of the benefits that Norris has gotten. He has been with the team for the rebuild so it makes sense but watching the lead slip from Oscar has been disheartening

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

Yeah I understand where you’re coming from though I don’t think just because he’s been with the team longer he deserves the championship more. He has worked hard for it especially in this second half of the year so if he wins he deserves it. I’m personally an Oscar fan though and not necessarily a McLaren fan not because I have anything against McLaren. At the end of the day I didn’t really think Oscar was going to win from the start of the year so his performance was a surprise none the less

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2d

The infamous Papaya Rules really seemed like a “cmon oscar, help out Lando here” kinda deal. Lando is putting in mega laps race after race and has been extremely consistent - but I just don’t want Oscar to become potential man and have these new regs possibly throw everything on its head. I assume they’ve run countless sim hours in the cars, but it’s hard to not have the expectation that their next years car will be good

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

I don’t know j feel like papaya rules are blown out of proportion with how people talk about them. Though that’s solely based off how Oscar described it with it really being one rule “not to crash your teammate” but if he was suffering because of them I don’t know why he would’ve said that. Trust me I want to find excuses for Oscar’s poor performance but these past few races weren’t his best in the past except for Brazil which he could’ve done well in

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2d

That being said I don’t think he would’ve signed the longest deal in f1 history? I believe if he didn’t see the team would have good performance in the new regulations. Don’t get me wrong he has no idea what the other teams’ performances might look like but he definitely thinks McLaren will still do well and probably be fighting for wins or at least podiums still

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