Nikosar wrote: ↑29 Oct 2024, 16:44
I once heard James Vowles talk about his decision to drop Logan Sargeant. As long as the car wasn't performing, he had nothing to complain about, but when they started to have a car capable of scoring points and Sergent wasn't up to the job, the decision was to drop him.
You can't compare a driver with a TP, but you can draw the parallel.
Fallows and Krack arrived when there was no team structure and a lack of infrastructure.
- Krack's first objective is to build a team structure. Is he achieving the result ? Yes.
- Fallows' goal is to build a fast car (in collaboration with other departments). Others departments are still shaping as well of the infrastructure. It is therefore still too "early" to say whether he has done a good or a bad job.
Now by that being said, even if we say it is "early", we can still argue about the “smaller” F1 teams capable of producing better packages, and about Aston, which finds itself lost after having had almost two years to produce an improvement.
We can also argue about Lawrence's attempt to sign James Allison and Diego Tondi (perhaps they wanted to replace Fallows?). It's easy to let someone go, but they're going to need a better replacement.
I understand everyone's frustrations and I, like you, am, especially when you see how hard Alonso pushes himself every weekend... but that's the present and we're hoping for a better 2026.
I think you could make an argument with Fallows. Hard to find blame with anything Krack does. Krack and Lawrence are a tag team similar to Horner and Helmut Marko. Although, Horner isn't a willing participant in that tag team. He seems to have a upper hand over there now, still Marko has been forced upon him. On the AMR side, obviously the veto is with Lawrence. So if you have issue with Krack, you really have issue with Lawrence as well.
With regards to Fallows, I wouldn't be surprised if he's Newey's man. Don't forget Newey knows him well. They've been on the same team for over 10 years. So Fallows either get fired/re-positioned early in Newey tennure or he's there for the long haul.
I would think those guys (James Allison and Diego Tondi) would have been for Cardille's or Cowell's jobs.
