Balalu wrote: ↑05 Mar 2023, 15:03
Serious question: who is responsible for the team's current situation (whatever it is)? Andreas Seidl or Andrea Stella?
Or is it even the actual "change" timeline that might have created this situation, with no one really to blame?
Seing a lot of McLaren fans stupidly asking for Binotto for TP across the internet.
I would personally pin this more on Seidl (or just his situation amid changing teams) than Stella. Stella deserves time.
I know they don't build the cars, but ultimately the buck stops with them. They have the last say in the team.
As much as the incentive is to blame the bigger names on managerial positions, at the end of the day, the manager can't do sh*t if the people under him are not good enough at their jobs.
When looking at Aston Martin and Haas, both of which have made important hires in the form of Dan Fallows and Simone Resta, you can see by the results on track that yes, budget and infrastructure matters, and McLaren is right to prioritize those things. But it is much more important to have the right people working on the performance aspects of the car.
I am of the opinion that McLaren lacks talent in their engineering and aerodynamics department, because in spite of their infrastructure deficits, I cannot attribute the gap and the problems they have had in the last two years in particular just to those infrastructure deficits.
And I don't mean to disrespect anyone working at McLaren, but truth be told, the car running on track right now it's a product of their work. And at the moment, it is being outclassed by the majority of the field.