dialtone wrote: ↑06 Sep 2024, 17:23
I think that's a fair argument but, if the rumors are to be believed, like you believe the story about him and RBR, then his requests on veto power at Ferrari go well beyond the typical tasks of a CTO and included sponsorship deals and so on.
AR3-GP wrote: ↑06 Sep 2024, 17:15
As far as I see, the veto would have protected Ferrari from the political machinations of Ferrari executives. Even Vasseur is still a puppet to Vigna and Elkann.
dialtone wrote: ↑06 Sep 2024, 17:23
Of course the veto is good against Ferrari as notoriously the only team with politics, no other team, especially in the last year, has had any political fallout, just Ferrari
. And the comment about Vasseur being a puppet is out of nowhere so I'll ignore it.
But that's the point. Red Bull got involved in political nonsense and Newey had no power anymore anywhere, so he left! This has come full circle. The exact situation he wants to avoid repeating at Ferrari or AMR. I'm not saying Ferrari is the only team with political nonsense, but it is definitely one of the teams that is capable of suffering from political nonsense.
I don't mean Vasseur is a puppet in a negative way but even just observing the acquisition of Hamilton, you could see that it was a mission of Ferrari executives, and Vasseur just had to get on board with it. Hamilton is of course a great signing for the team, but it's a sideways step. They already had a team that could build itself around Leclerc, with Sainz being the perfect not quite quick enough wing man. Why destroy this, other than to go on another political mission which was to win with Hamilton. You can build a championship winning team around Hamilton, but you can do the same with Leclerc and they already had Leclerc.
A lion must kill its prey.