As far as I know NDV never raced a Mercedes. He performs well in practice all the time, it’s just when it comes to the race that he makes mistake after mistake.
Tsunoda is doing much better, and more vitally was part of the RB academy. NDV was a hire outside their academy and they’re regretting it. Tsunoda also didn’t come into his rookie year loudly proclaiming that he’s “not a rookie” and shouldn’t be treated like one.
He did, but Monza was the track the Williams was strongest at, he was being compared to latifi and Albon (the benchmark for his performance) was out of the car.
Nyck didn’t do anything particularly impressive race wise in that race, he just drove a clean race and finished where the pace of the car should probably have finished.
![[Erik van Haren] Nyck de Vries immediately sent away from AlphaTauri. Daniel Ricciardo will replace him in Hungary next week.](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/df4ad383-f4eb-4b0c-a5e6-bf480a0620c5.png){kind=link}
As far as I know NDV never raced a Mercedes. He performs well in practice all the time, it’s just when it comes to the race that he makes mistake after mistake.
Tsunoda is doing much better, and more vitally was part of the RB academy. NDV was a hire outside their academy and they’re regretting it. Tsunoda also didn’t come into his rookie year loudly proclaiming that he’s “not a rookie” and shouldn’t be treated like one.
You’re right, it was with Williams. But he did score points in his debut with them in Italy.
He did, but Monza was the track the Williams was strongest at, he was being compared to latifi and Albon (the benchmark for his performance) was out of the car.
Nyck didn’t do anything particularly impressive race wise in that race, he just drove a clean race and finished where the pace of the car should probably have finished.