He added that he felt that Lance Stroll, the son of team owner Lawrence, "has an unfairly bad rap, on average", adding: "Any driver who gets to Formula 1 is clearly very good, but I think Lance is much better than people who've been very poor."
Seems like that's the kindest thing he could say about him, "much better than people who've been very poor"
I was confused at first because I thought they'd spent literal billions building the best factory and wind tunnel on the grid, but apparently they forgot something:
Newey said: "It's fair to say that some of our tools are weak. Particularly the driver-in-the-loop simulator needs a lot of work because it's not correlating at all at the moment, which is a fundamental research tool."
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TheWeirdestCunt@lemm.ee · 24 pts · 1y
That's not a very nice thing to call Lance
smeg@feddit.uk · 12 pts · 1y
Lol, that is actually addressed in the article
Seems like that's the kindest thing he could say about him, "much better than people who've been very poor"
florge@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 1y
That's worthy of the 'say something nice about Lance Stroll' segment on the Midfield Podcast.
woelkchen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Good at paying off the second seat drivers in the junior series to back off the competition to help Lance.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Yup, Minardi during the Malaysia years comes to mind.... Never seen second drivers out qualified to the tune of seconds before.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 9 pts · 1y
I was confused at first because I thought they'd spent literal billions building the best factory and wind tunnel on the grid, but apparently they forgot something:
itsathursday@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I honestly thought he was going to lament a lack of drafting tables
Nanook@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
“Pencils man, proper fucking pencils.” Newey freaking out when finding only HB.
wanderwisley@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Oh no the nepo-company has a bad work environment? Oh dear…🍿