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Subject: Re: Checo gone
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:13:06 +1300
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On 19/12/2024 5:22 pm, scole wrote:
> In article <vjvufp$2i5uh$1@dont-email.me>, geoff@nospamgeoffwood.org wrote:
> 
>> Sad, but seemingly inevitable.
>>
>> And who to replace ?
>>
>> TSU  has been doing all the right things of late.
>>
>> Or LAW, who started with a flourish but seems to have flattened out a
>> bit, plus a bit of bad luck.
>>
>> Despite LAW being a fellow kiwi, I don't warm to him as he appears to
>> impart a sense on 'entitlement', and tends to snivel a lot.
>>
>> But whoever gets the job, surely being second-fiddle to VER is not a
>> happy place to be anyway.
> 
> I think both Tsunoda and Lawson would be bad picks. Tsunoda in particular
> has shown he does not have the temperament to know his place and play his
> role, it'll end in tears and would be counter-productive.
> 
> I did see an article recently that floated the idea of bringing in Bottas,
> a reliable journeyman driver who has already demonstrated a willingness to
> be the number 2 in a team. I like that idea, I've a soft spot for Valtteri
> and it'd be nice to see him get a few years in a top team again.

Lawson got the seat.

<https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/breaking-lawson-confirmed-as-verstappens-red-bull-team-mate-for-2025.4umEL3YzqWIv9JEV7qI2Gn> 

-- 
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification 
in the DSM"
David Melville.