The overriding emotion after Haas driver Kevin Magnussen's spoiler tactics against Lewis Hamilton at the Miami Grand Prix? Sadness, actually. Here's why...
Just over a decade ago – in an F1 world before Max Verstappen, if such a thing can be believed – the esteemed driver coach Rob Wilson was asked a question.
Well he got that wrong, you might say now.
By the time he finally washed up at Haas in 2017, it was already much too late for him to be the racing driver he really could have been.It is why his decline, culminating in his F1 2024 reinvention as the Haas team’s enforcer – slowing, spoiling, intimidating the opposition as Nico Hulkenberg brings home the points – is so sad.
Yet the hard – unspoken – truth is that he would not have to resort to such tactics at all if the raw performance was there.There is a delicious irony that, seven years since their infamous post-race exchange in Hungary, Magnussen’s F1 future appeared to be resting in Hulkenberg’s hands until very recently.
Or, to put it more bluntly, having two drivers capable of scoring semi-regular points on merit would surely be more preferable than one, with his team-mate deployed as back-up.
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