Quote Originally Posted by wes4dbt View Post
I hope they keep him. There is starting to be a real manufacturers battle. lol
Ha, that is one way to look at it.

If you had to assign the percent chances of the top 4 teams (Red Bull, McLaren, Ferrari, Mercedes) winning the championship this year, I'm curious how you would rank them? Right now I think I would put it at something like this:

McLaren: 49%
Red Bull: 38%
Mercedes: 10%
Ferarri: 3%

If Red Bull dumps Perez for someone like Liam Lawson for the 2nd half of the season, then I would put it at around 50/50 between McLaren and Red Bull.

The chaos at Red Bull between Newey leaving, papa V vs. Horner, Horner's "impropriety" (which we still don't know what he was accused of doing), and Helmut Marko's earlier fence sitting on if he was going to stick around or not seems to have severely impacted their race weekends of late. Earlier in the season they seemed to be able to compartmentalize it away from race day, but not any more.