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Why misfortune has masked Racing Point's dark horse

Although Renault has protested the legality of Racing Point's RP20, the car pejoratively referred to as the "Pink Mercedes" has yet to deliver on its promise. But there's much more to it than meets the eye

Jake Boxall-Legge Jul 13, 2020, 3:26 PM

Context, in Formula 1, is everything. In the previous two seasons, the Racing Point squad would have snatched a sixth-and-seventh result from your hand - but in the year 2020, the team will make the trudge from Austria to Hungary presumably disappointed.

In 2018, the Force India squad was close to hitting the wall before Lawrence Stroll's consortium of backers rescued the team, and it was still arguably suffering from that financial hangover in 2019 as development was severely stunted. In that context, being well among the points with both cars would have been lauded as a victory.

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Author Jake Boxall-Legge

Jake studied engineering at university, as his original ambition was to design racing cars. He was bad at that, and thus decided to write about them instead with an equally limited skillset. The above article is a demonstration of that. In his spare time, Jake enjoys people, places, and things.