and completely ignoring that said golden child threw the whole team under the bus, and the way he spoke to GP on the radio.
i think it’s going to be interesting next season though. checo is/was the dream teammate, he has defended for max, given up position for max, rarely complains, plays the team game. he needed one thing from max, max wouldn’t do it, how is that dynamic going to play out next year?! max needs checo more than he realises.
that being said, i think max is so much in charge at red bull that i think he barely registers checo as a teammate. he only sees him as the second driver. probably thinks it was an insult to him that he, max, was asked to yield position. still in shock about it really.
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It's only made him look bad and fractured the relationship with his teammate.
) and it’s just bizarre to me that, whether you believe the monaco thing or not, he had a grudge that he had sat on for weeks/months and deliberately waited to play that card at a moment he knew checo would need him most. that’s a measure of maliciousness that is dangerous tbh, and i speak as someone who’s defended him previously.