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He's mediocre. There are better drivers out there. F1 moves fast. Russell, gasley, Perez, hulk are all available.
Really, the only two teams with two. Decent drivers are merc and mclaren.
But even Bottas is a clear number 2
That's an interesting perspective since I'd imagine most would say Ricciardo to be only slightly below Max, and Lewis in terms of top tier drivers. Perez isn't particularly fast. Hulk is more like a Bottas driver. Gasley and Russell are doing great, both are still unproven in decent machinery.
In fact Dani Ric beat Max in 2 seasons (even if the first starts from Spain) and lost out in the third. The last two seasons he had more mechanical DNFs also. Where Max shone more was in qualifying where Ricciardo was on average around 0.2 slower, but still had more poles in their time together.
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