Mercedes GP 2011

[JohnsonsEvilTwin]

Now if there was any info transfer we would have seen Mercedes GP adopt the RB style exhausts far sooner than they did.

Alas JET, things just don't work like that..........

Ok, I freely admit I don't know how it works. How does it work then, seg?

[Steven]

Ok then, it looks like it is too much of an expectation to let this thread go on for a while and see if people can behave.

I've had to clean up the most off-topic and personal posts in these last few pages, and I hope this can now go on in a reasonable and perhaps even factional discussion.

Thank you

[Richard]

Tomba - did you mean "factual"?

"Factional" means internal dissent or civil war.

[raymondu999]

Barney Garrood just left. He was Project leader of aero special projects wasn't he?

[JohnsonsEvilTwin]

Barney Garrood just left. He was Project leader of aero special projects wasn't he?

Interesting... any reasons given?

Replacement lined up?

[JohnsonsEvilTwin]

Edit: double post

[raymondu999]

Not that I know of, on both counts. Or I haven't heard anything anyways

[Hemsy]

Could be part of the restructuring that Bob Bell is undertaking at the team.

[JohnsonsEvilTwin]

Could be part of the restructuring that Bob Bell is undertaking at the team.

Oh I think that is a given. Thing I would like to know is what where this guys responsibilities in the "aero special projects"?

Im assuming front wing and general aero, particularly if the feedback from the team regards the car is that it requires X amount of downforce towards the rear/front etc.
So he is the aero point-man
I also see F1enigma rates the chap highly, witnessing the W01 and W02 I honestly cant see what is "special" about him.
Maybe it was another bonkers idea and Bell gave the guy short shrift and sent him packing?

He's the guy in the blue shirt:


Edit: Further digging has come up with this.

Garood was no longer at Mercedes as of June this year!
He is now a driector at LaSource technologies...

(Sourced from LinkedIn)
Director
LaSource Technologies
Automotive industry
July 2011 – Present (3 months) Surrey

Aerodynamics Project Leader
Mercedes GP
Automotive industry
January 2010 – June 2011 (1 year 6 months) Brackley

Aerodynamics Group Leader
Brawn GP
Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry
March 2009 – January 2010 (11 months)

Senior Aerodynamicist
Honda Racing F1
Automotive industry
January 2008 – March 2009 (1 year 3 months)

Trackside Aerodynamicist
Super Aguri F1 Team
Entertainment industry
2007 – 2008 (1 year)

Aerodynamicist
Ferrari Gestione Sportiva
Entertainment industry
2004 – 2007 (3 years)

[shelly]

Funny that the picture seems just an odd man out, with our man being the only one not wearing a white shirt and - very strange- not showing his ferrari badge

[JohnsonsEvilTwin]

Funny that the picture seems just an odd man out, with our man being the only one not wearing a white shirt and - very strange- not showing his ferrari badge

Could just have been a day out recently.

[shelly]

Agrre on that, but all the other Ferrari employees are wearing their regular ferrari badge

[raymondu999]

Huh? Why would @F1enigma tweet that he left, only now?

[JohnsonsEvilTwin]

Huh? Why would @F1enigma tweet that he left, only now?

Late news on that one... Maybe it was just drawn to his attention now. Seems like you need to keep tabs on comings and goings within F1 like a hawk! I wonder if teams publish a role call of the members of staff they have on their books?

Agrre on that, but all the other Ferrari employees are wearing their regular ferrari badge

They could have been invited as guests by Ferrari, and Garood was there in some capacity for Honda/Brawn/Merc.

[shelly]

Agrre on that, but all the other Ferrari employees are wearing their regular ferrari badge

They could have been invited as guests by Ferrari, and Garood was there in some capacity for Honda/Brawn/Merc.[/quote]

Yes of course; I was just saying that it is easy to spot him as is the only one different in the group.