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Goes back to Alonso rejoining Renault/Alpine and being designated a rookie so he could participate in post-season testing.There's been a ton of memes and such about Fernando Alonso being a rookie, I think it's related to that.
Aha!Goes back to Alonso rejoining Alpine and being designated a rookie so he could participate in post-season testing.
He does predict a Max title win but with some caveats...Does Martin Brundle count?
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...which I feel is fair enoughSo, I feel that Max starts as the favourite assuming Red Bull can sort the car, but he's got so much hard work to do. If you look at the final 14 races of last year, Max wasn't going to win any championship on those results alone, so we'll see if post Newey the team has what it takes to improve. If they can't then my prediction will be wrong.
But in any event, if McLaren, Mercedes, or Ferrari have a dominant car, and if somebody does manage to regularly win races, then Max has got a problem.