KimiRai wrote: ↑11 Sep 2024, 02:52
So Adrian arrives early March, the team will have their own ideas and have advanced somewhat, Adrian will have thought something on his own surely. Does he supervise from that point on, or will they pick and choose... bit of wild speculation and I have no clue at all of technical stuff of course
Can see the disadvantage of him not being there from the start, if they have to go back on some stuff and the finished product will be at a less advanced stage for launch than other teams... But who knows maybe that also means they choose a better platform
The good thing is that the chassis rules were published pretty late and changed a lot of times (and still will be), so noone will have a real head start on the chassis side. Even better that no wind tunnel runs are allowed before the new year.
I think it's pretty clear that Neweys ideas will somehow find its ways to the team already before March. But it's clear, as he said, you can't underestimate the time he needs to get used to his new colleagues, the new environment, once he really works there. In every company the ways are a bit different, although you make the same product (building a race car in their case).
What I found very interesting in the media round from Furbatto is that he said that about 1/5 of the stuff in Silvestone was working until now for the completion of building 2 and 3 (or for the things that are in building 2 and 3). This stuff is free for F1 projects once everything is ready to use...
