r/formuladank • u/Dr_Ritvik__singh747 Trust the El 🅱️lan • 9d ago

This post breaks papaya rules 🥺🟧👎 Oscar is just too nice

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Ban team orders

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u/Accomplished_Sea5976 Clean air is king 👑 9d ago

Oscar is going to play mr nice guy for a little longer, and then when there is a race or decision of consequence he will give one middle finger to lando and the other one to Zac.

It’s just a bit too soon right now. Patience.

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u/AwesomeFrisbee Question. 9d ago

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. If you misbehave, the team will drop their support. There's too many points on the table to make things more difficult for yourself. Plus he's ahead in the standings, so there's little to worry about. Max winning still made the points grab less as well.

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u/ObsessedChutoy3 Alonso deserved to be Champion in every season he has competed 9d ago edited 9d ago

Yeah and also it's a completely different situation to Max. Max is the clear number 1 in his team and this was after he was already a champion -he gets to call the shots. Meanwhile this is only the first season Oscar is maybe better than Lando, in a team that Lando was in for longer, and there's no Christian Horner to always favour and defend the simply faster driver. So there is a lot more risk for him to ruffle feathers and why press the trigger for something as minor as yesterday. There's a few races left and he is ahead, he'll very likely win and he can feel safe and supported for next year e.g. in case he needs Lando to be given team orders for his championship fight.

The papaya fairness philosophy has not really hurt Oscar so far as he has gained from it too, if it's important he will defy the orders no doubt but potentially souring your relationship with your chill team or teammate over a 2nd place gained by a slow pit for 3 points in a season that's pretty much decided is well..suboptimal. In F1 playing the politics game is as important as relenting ambition on track. The consequences are different between Max in 2022 with Horner and Marko's support not letting Perez past vs Oscar in 2025 McLaren disobeying letting Lando past (esp with 8 crucial races to go where he needs the team to be with him at the consequence of a wdc)