It is probably so easy to get into a 'grey area' loop. You spend tens of millions on things that give you a tenth, then exploit a grey ares and it gives you another tenth for little cost and today, not weeks down the line.diffuser wrote: ↑13 Oct 2020, 18:37I always thought they tore through tires cause they had more DF. They didn't change anything to fix that they just lobbied and won the battle for tougher tires. They did that by making them seem unsafe. Also with Ferrari how mcuh of the noise is from outside the team. How much is for inside. We really don't know what going on inside. Like why was Maurizio Arrivabene replaced?e30ernest wrote: ↑13 Oct 2020, 17:33But the Mercs weren't always winning and they were pretty calm then as a team back then. And I don't think it is just the budget since I am sure other companies like Ferrari and Toyota had the budget too. It's a management thing I think, being able to stand the pressures from the outside world to maintain internal stability to find solutions.diffuser wrote: ↑13 Oct 2020, 16:16I think it's easy to have calmness when your winning. I remember alot of questioning of Hamilton abilities during those last few years at McLaren. The car didn't have the pace. He had to take more risk to get ahead. The more risks you take the more often it ends in tears. Wasn't his fault the car didn't have the pace.
I think with Mecr it all starts with the budget, they have the most people that work for the F1 team. Makes it easier to indetify weak links and remove those people. Plus the got started early on the current PU regs and were miles ahead of everyone else. Once you they got ahead, they just kept it rolling. Of course with the budget and the people you need the guy that is making the right choices. Every wrong choice wastes money from that budget advantage.
When the Mercs were tearing through their tires, I don't seem to remember as much calls for heads to roll as there has been for Ferrari when they don't do too good.
In my defense I did say you need the right guy at the top otherwise you just waste resources. Like Ferrari did with thier PU when they explored improving PU performance by illegal means. That was hundreds of millions of $ that right now is giving them 0. Did Maurizio Arrivabene sanction that arm of Development? There was noise on the ground that Ferari had been cheating for a while. Did they think that it was just a matter of time before they got caught? Did they axed Arrivabene on approving that line of development?
(Just a little you understand, we would not do something blatant or cheat)
You use it for a while and the advantage starts shrinking so you move just a little more to the grey side.
(Just a tiny move. only enough to keep up with the opposition, I mean, They are probably cheating anyway)
Complaints come down from on high, what are you doing down there we are looking bad, fix it NOW.
Ah,cr... go on then just enough to be competitive...
Erm, we have been summoned to the stewards
