munudeges wrote:xpensive wrote:In the mean time, he's giving up on this farce and has ordered RB to downsize, only to find out that Bell the Well, Will the Thrill and the Italian Stallion has all been given bullet-proof contracts which will cost an arm and a leg to break out of.
That raises an important question X. Do they even care any more now they know the writing is on the wall? The decline in form and lack of any determination to improve leads you to ask why. People like Bell and especially Willis should have been able to pull something out to keep them on terms. One wonders whether they have tried to make pulling out prohibitively expensive for Merc in some desperate fashion and Willis in particular has already thrown the towel in - again.
I have given up understanding the politics behind this team. It is still BAR, still as useless as BAR and it still stinks to high heaven.
I would say there is a great book in all of this.
Someone could definitely write a nice book on the lack of management involved with MGP as a cautionary tale not just for other race teams, but for businesses in general.
The entire situation revolving around MGP seems to me a clear case of the inmates running the asylum.
The warden so to speak in Ross Brawn basically has chosen to do nothing because either way he is getting paid, and there isn't much that can be done right now. He received the massive payment for selling to MGP. What incentive does he have left to do anything. No matter what happens to MGP, he isn't losing the buyout money.
It also brings up the subject of how important Ross truly was to the success that was had at both Benetton, and Ferrari.
Some here are rather insistent that Ross was an integral part, if not the defining part of what caused both teams to achieve success.
In fact, this story continues to be perpetuated across the world; Ross Brawn led the Scuderia to multiple World Championships due to his cunning abilities as a strategist. Even his Wikipedia page says the infamous words of "the Brawn-led Scuderia..." which is rather disingenuous at best. Yet no one seems to be able to give any account of just what it was the man did at Benetton and Ferrari, other than regurgitating the job description of technical director as apparent proof his being in that position, he definitely did what the standard TD does.
It also ignores the fact that Ross had two strong team principals, and a strong designer during those two stints. That says infinitely more about who was really responsible at both teams for the combined 7 World Championships.
For such a master of the technical, Ross has been in over his head at MGP for the last few years.
