Porque no los dos?

Currently reading Damon Hill's book. His decline in 99 was spectacular but that was because he wanted out of F1.

Danny Ric in the McLaren was pretty hard to watch

He was never a top driver. The car was further ahead of the rest at the start of the season and he had some luck during the races, but anyone who ever thought he was going to be challenging for the title was kidding themselves.

Im not sure he can even do that, it seems it's either super conservative and he isn't faster than the other cars or pushes too hard and makes mistakes.

I think Lewis is a better teammate and just in general better person than max. He was constantly Valterris true friend and supporter the whole time, yea he was always crushing him on track but max has done the same on track to his mates and not been near as supportive. Maybe it’s just the Dutch vs English culture but there’s is a noticeable difference in how they’ve both acted towards teammates.

Even when George is being a whiny shit-stick, Lewis is still nice and supportive

Who could replace him?

The only way he gets the seat would be if he confirms his role as second driver. No way that RB is going to allow two fighting drivers, especially not with the show Checo is putting up currently, after explicitly challenging Max. All was well for Checo when he was “just” the second driver. Which is the job he was hired to do.

We need to see how Ric performs at AT. If Tsunoda outscores him over the remaining races then it will be difficult to justify why they'd promote Ric over Tsu.

It looks like he's Speed running his contract tbh...