LetHimTrough wrote: ↑21 Mar 2024, 12:14
What would Newey do to avoid pitting Leclerc for Hards, like in Hungary 2022? And many other "issues" Ferrari has unfortunately had.
I think the way Vasseur approach is first build strong foundations, and Newey I think would be a nice guarantee of continuation of evolution more than for revolution.
Ferrari "designing team" isn't that that bad right now as well.
If Mercedes domination has taught as anything it's that you don't need competent strategists (or pitstops for that matter) if you have a dominant car. You can put literally anything you want on the car and it would still work.
Ferrari's strategy dept constantly feels the need to "invent" stuff because the car does not have performance on its own. With a dominant car you can literally mirror whatever everyone else is doing and you end up looking like a genius.
Rueda certainly had his fair share errors, sure (Monaco 2022, Silverstone 2022, it's a long list), but let's not pretend that having a good chassis does not make strategy ten times easier.