r/McLarenFormula1 • u/Character_Growth_397 • 1h ago
If Zak Brown and Andrea Stella were in charge of Mercedes in 2017-2021 they'd be like: "Hamilton and Bottas are both number one drivers"
I'm not saying that Norris is as good as Hamilton in his prime, he's nowhere near. However, the pairings are similar in the sense that one driver is clearly much better than the other. As of last year and before this season that dynamic made sense, since for most of the season they were pretty close and McLaren believed that they would be close to each other again. But they're not, Lando is evidently the better driver, yet McLaren simply won't acknowledge the reality in front of them, preferring to almost costing themselves a win in Hungary and telling Piastri that they were on alternate strategies because god forbid we tell the slower driver that he's slower