Carlton Supporters Club

The end is nigh!

https://youtu.be/fvziDes6kr0?t=5
So long, and thanks for all the fish!

Danny Ric and McLaren need to work out some kind of compromise for the benefit of each other.

That reads more like a prayer rather than a strategy.

I'm a Ricciardo booster, he is known as "The last of the late brakers", a style of driving I admire, why he and Alonso are my among my favourites.

He has a McLaren car with known high end straight line speed and strong braking, a car they(the experts) thought suited his driving style to perfection.

But this year he can't get past anybody!

Unfortunately for Ricciardo, there are more signs from the weekend he is losing the top support of his team. It's no accident weird little things keep going wrong with his race, it's all about being the team's B option.

You get the 2nd best engineers, the 2nd best parts, the 2nd best tyres, the 2nd best strategy, it all has an impact.

He would have expected to arrive at McLaren as the A option, it'll be very hard for him to regain that ground now which is a bit sad, because it looks like when it is all equal he's as quick as ever.

Things happen. There is a 50% chance that it will happen to him. Just because it does, it doesn't mean its because he is the 2nd driver.

You remind me of the guys you so often take aim at. Robbo and co with their sensationalist journalism.

Nothing to see here.

Or you are in denial about the end approaching for Daniel, the drums are beating once the specialists starting talking about your issues and they are all over him at the moment. It's a brutal business.

The end is nigh for Danny R.

Yes, because he is the wrong side of 30.

....but not because of his results.

Its a 1000000 - 1 chance, but if McLaren sacked Ricciardo, he'd have no trouble finding a drive in 2022.

With one of the back markers maybe.

...but surely if he is past it, the back markers wouldn't want him either.....right?

Or perhaps he simply isn't past it.

...but surely if he is past it, the back markers wouldn't want him either.....right?

Or perhaps he simply isn't past it.

I think the lower teams would welcome up guys like Vettel, Alonso and Ricciardo as long as they fit their price to the budget and are willing. They might not be on the racing edge anymore, but they have the young guys done and dusted in terms of a lowly team gaining from top level experience and knowledge. Guys like Verstappen, Russell and Norris feed off the older guys to accelerate their progress, teams like McLaren need someone like Ricciardo in the squad because he's the one they would go to when they want to fix the problems.

It might we be a trick the weaker teams have missed, in that perhaps a lowly team should be offering a pair of the senior drivers some sort of duopoly partnership, but of course the drivers have to be willing. Get them off the bottom and up to technology and reliability speed then try a bleeding edge newbie.

Do not take my remarks as disrespect or dislike of Ricciardo, I barrack for him every race, but just like sMurph and Betts the end is nigh! Sure they still offer some highlights here and there, but they won't be 24x7 performers anymore. That's not to say they aren't invaluable off the field and to the team for lifting the kids to the required level.

Never rated him, never liked him. Comes across as full of himself. As for drinking out of sweaty race boot, as gross and as bogus as it gets.