They just offered them promotions. Cardile was a TD at Ferrari, is now CTO, Fallows was head of aero at RBR is TD at AMR, Newey almost GOD at RBR -> GOD at AMR, etc etc etc.lio007 wrote: ↑09 Sep 2024, 21:36But to get these people onboard AM had/has to pay considerably more than the previous teams. There were some reports that AM's offers are pretty big.
So, will it be a disadvantage at some point to get them onboard and not being able to operate on the same staff size as other teams?
Cardile's salary at AM is rumoured to be 5-6 times larger than what he had at Ferrari. I don't think it was just promotiondiffuser wrote: ↑09 Sep 2024, 22:39They just offered them promotions. Cardile was a TD at Ferrari, is now CTO, Fallows was head of aero at RBR is TD at AMR, Newey almost GOD at RBR -> GOD at AMR, etc etc etc.lio007 wrote: ↑09 Sep 2024, 21:36But to get these people onboard AM had/has to pay considerably more than the previous teams. There were some reports that AM's offers are pretty big.
So, will it be a disadvantage at some point to get them onboard and not being able to operate on the same staff size as other teams?
Yeah some of these guys had other teams interested in them too. AM has generally outbid them for their services. I forgot to mention Andrew Green in there as well.KimiRai wrote: ↑09 Sep 2024, 22:50Cardile's salary at AM is rumoured to be 5-6 times larger than what he had at Ferrari. I don't think it was just promotiondiffuser wrote: ↑09 Sep 2024, 22:39They just offered them promotions. Cardile was a TD at Ferrari, is now CTO, Fallows was head of aero at RBR is TD at AMR, Newey almost GOD at RBR -> GOD at AMR, etc etc etc.lio007 wrote: ↑09 Sep 2024, 21:36But to get these people onboard AM had/has to pay considerably more than the previous teams. There were some reports that AM's offers are pretty big.
So, will it be a disadvantage at some point to get them onboard and not being able to operate on the same staff size as other teams?
Math don't lie.peewon wrote: ↑09 Sep 2024, 23:01Yeah some of these guys had other teams interested in them too. AM has generally outbid them for their services. I forgot to mention Andrew Green in there as well.