AmateurDriver wrote: ↑09 May 2024, 19:58
A few words only, since I have been warned not to dig too much into the implications of Agnelli/Elkann controlling Ferrari (and I'm aligning to moderator's request even though I don't agree with him). Marchionne (let alone Elkann) would NEVER strive (and pay) to snatch Brown Byrne Schumi from the competition.
I'm not a Moderator, those guys post very rarely and have aquamarine (blue green) username colour. The topic is Ferrari team 2024, there are many off topic posts reported and deleted regularly. Us older members do what we can to help Moderators and we care to keep team and car topics as clean as possible, so that fans and members can enjoy meaningful content and feel encouraged to engage even more.
As for your post, the present and future Ferrari team are formed based on a lot of strong names in every department. The biggest names are Hamilton and almost certainly Newey - snatched from direct competitors, while all of the less known personnel brought last year from Red Bull and Mercedes are already contributing, obvious from results. So much about Elkann. Marchione's all-Italian vision was flawed, but ultimately could have resulted in titles if some races went differently - most of the ones going wrong were down to Seb failing under pressure and Arrivabene deciding against any team orders.
Montezemolo brought Todt after failed attempt with Lombardi and Barnard. Todt brought Schumi, Schumi pulled Brawn and Byrne with him. Before the success of 2000s came, there was a lot of expectations and tensions were high. Montezemolo threatend to some staff, Todt included. Brawn only said it once - if Todt leaves, I leave. Schumi was of the same opinion. Montezemolo had to let them shape Ferrari in their vision, not his.
Once Todt, Byrne and Brawn left, Montezemolo started messing with the team and making all sorts of changes. Most of those changes are still felt today (some things concerning aero development, tyre department was disbanded some time in 2008-09, strategy department was run differently etc) while some changes have only gotten back to required level recently (such as simulation tools, including driving simulator). Andi76 will happily share more, you can also look at his previous posts and you can learn a lot about that period.
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) I think the main ingredients for success in that era were still Schumacher, Todt, Brawn and Byrne. And now we had some similar happening, just the thought of Byrne and Newey helping to build a 2026 car im very excited.
.. but his new race engineer is familiar and not a total new person, and he was Charles performance engineer, we would often see him in the tv as well. hope he is up for the task.
