In that respect, it makes Tsunodas achievements that much more remarkable

Overall I agree with what you are saying and Liam looks like the real deal (and yet is left on the side by RB) - but to be fair, it's clear that the Alpha Tauri was a very poor car at the beginning of the year and it has been quite drastically improved.

In that sense, Nick was unlucky, it made his life difficult… He really struggled and lost ground.

At the end of the day, De Vries did not do a good enough job. But he was given very limited time and it would be unfair to forget all his achievements from the past and tag him a poor driver.

Lawson has pretty much proved that Red Bull were right to ditch De Vries. You could excuse Sargeant’s and De Vries’ (and previous rookies like Mick Schumacher) poor performances when it was just Piastri proving them wrong, after all he was the “anomaly,” but after Lawson stepped in and showed us that apparently it’s not the car that’s making some of these rookies look bad, but rather their own performance. There’s really not much of an argument left.

De Vries had some really poor to abysmal performances, and those are on him and him alone.

Overreaction, much?