#it’s annoying for other to firstly police our emotions as if they won’t crumble if this is happening to their driver

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all the danny haters keep bringing up his poor performances in response to us being angry at how this situation has been handled, but if the contract was signed on 4th july, then negotiations were clearly ongoing for a while beforehand, especially when you add in all zb’s comments which seemed to start way back in miami.

it just makes me think of what happened to stoffel (also at the hands of zb’s managing team let’s not forget) in 2018, where the team were talking with carlos and lando (“It’s not easy to drive at your best when you know the team is negotiating with other drivers behind your back,”), but also with the internal politics within the team (Asked a few months later if McLaren’s focus on Alonso had hampered his own career, Vandoorne told Ziggo Sport: “Yes. Unfortunately, I have never been able to tell 99 per cent of what happened.” It is a point of view the 29-year-old stands by. “You didn’t see everything that happened behind the scenes, all the politics,” GPBlog reports him as having told Brussels daily Dernière Heure.).

also its important to remember that this is the team that blamed honda for the fact they were so slow during the mclaren-honda years, then when they switched to renault it became clear that the chassis was the problem, but rather than admitting the car wasn’t good enough, got rid of their driver. the whole situation is repeating itself all over again, as mclaren once again produced an underperforming car. unlike with honda, its not as if they can blame the merc engine now bc mercedes’ factory team is the benchmark for that engine and is a semi-frontrunning car, whereas the mclaren tends to be fifth best but still off the pace from the front. it’s not hard to see that mcl over promised this year, and have only admitted that a couple of times (in fact i only think i’ve seen as talk about it, zb doesn’t seem too have addressed the issue at all).

tldr: the team seems incapable of admitting when they as a team have fallen short, rather blaming others for their failings, and this has become a repeating pattern of the last few years. honda, stoffel and daniel are all victims of this, even alonso, magnussen and perez to a point, and i wonder who or what comes next

https://www.planetf1.com/news/stoffel-vandoorne-mclaren-politics/

you spoke, you spilt, you ate and left no crumbs