The asymmetrical braking rumours sure seem likely at this point. Very reminiscent of 2006 when Schumi and Alonso flipped dominance halfway through the season (but not quite as crazy as 2009 where Button's best results in the last 10 races were a 2nd, 3rd, and a bunch of 5ths)
But Max has still outscored Lando 76-75 over the last 5 racess. Max has 1 retirement in the lasts 56 races...kinda hard to imagine him having more than 1 more this year
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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
As someone who's mainly followed F1 from the Netflix series, how did Red Bull end up with 2 teams? It seems weird to have a farm team constructor that's only purpose is to support another, not to win on it's own. Isn't that was Formula 2 is for?
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Cecil nailed it all, but one additional point is that there have been borderline farm team arrangements throughout the grid for years - generally structured around engine supply, but often running a lot deeper than that. Ferrari has used both Haas and Sauber (when it was Alfa Romeo); Merc and Williams, etc.
In 2006 (same year Red Bull converted Minardi to Toro Rosso) Honda launched its own junior team called Super Aguri. It only lasted until the first few races of 2008. McLaren also had a few irons in the fire around this time for potential customer cars, but nothing ever came to fruition.
So there was a time when a lot of the grid was heading towards junior team/customer car arrangements, but only Red Bull stayed fully committed to it, and it's been to the benefit of the sport as a whole.
DoubleK is only 1pt back of 2nd...I removed your second Russell pick...that got you Alonso slotted. 
