Manoah2u wrote:Which indeed, again, shows just how dire the situation at Williams must be.
No money, no parts. No money, no people to pay, no work, no progress.
I'm still baffled by people claiming Williams is financially stable, as everything proves the opposite is true.
I don't know what's worse actually, if Williams is having all this with financial difficulties or without.
Just to make clear one thing again, because the haters around can't seem to understand that being critical and stating facts doesn't equal people are happy with the negativity and misery currently going on.
Again, it's the absolute opposite. From all the teams, i'd actually like to see Williams successfull more than any, including even Mclaren. But i'm not blind to the hole they dug themselves in.
Also, i very much wonder how much of an additional and extended impact it made that they ditched Massa in favor of Sirotkin's roebels.
I don’t think anyone minds someone been critical, the problem is when opinions or assumptions are stated as “facts”, you mention:
A) No Money: Source please? When People say that Williams is financially stable is because they aren’t losing money. In reality they made 14 million in Profit in 2017 and there interim report showed a loss on EBITDA of 2.7 million at the half part of the year, with an outlook to be back to profitable by year end. So, they aren’t losing money... Could they have a larger budget? Sure, but from a Financial perspective, the team is in a good position.
B) No Parts: This of course is the biggest issue, but it isn’t necessarily dependent on lack of Money, but more in terms of the mistakes made during either design or manufacturing process (or a combination of both)... When you have a car that has a “Fundamental Issue” you just don’t throw new parts into it, since those parts would most probably not give you the expected results (part of the fundamental issue has to be related to correlation issues, therefore whatever they may design without fixing the problem first will not yield the expected results)... So, you either use resources to fix the issue and develop from that point or you throw money away on parts that may not help you in terms of performance... From a Managing stand point, the answer is clear and you just don’t throw money away and focus on fixing the issue.
C) No People To Pay: I’m not sure what you mean by this, if you mean that their employees aren’t been paid, I would love a source for it, since at no given point in time have there been any mentions of Williams employees not getting paid... If you mean that they have money to pay people, but not enough people to pay money to... I would still not be sure what you mean... Reality is that most often than not, just adding headcount isn’t going to solve the problems.
D) No Work: I’m sure that people are working and working hard, proof of that is the first week of testing where the team members worked “all nighters” to have the car out for at least a few laps... I’m sure everyone at Williams is working hard to revert the situation.
E) No Progress: This one is undeniable and you are absolutely right, unluckily there has being no progress compared to last season... But, we don’t really know if the problems they are facing this season are the same that plagued the car last season or not... Until someone gets a hold of the actual reason for the lack of performance on the car, we can only speculate... The big positive in any case is that they are saying that they know what is wrong (something that took them a big chunk of last season to figure out in 2018)... If they caught the problem early enough, they might be able to fix the issue in season instead of waiting for the following year (as Mclaren for example had to do last year).
I’m not a fan of Williams, never have been really... But, it’s interesting how people seem to know more about what is going on at the team that the team themselves... Having an opinion and speculating isn’t bad in itself, unless we start calling our opinions “facts”.
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