JohnsonsEvilTwin wrote:As you think that halving the workforce has NO effect, Why the f*** do Mclaren and Red Bull Ferrari bother employing 650 630 and 900 staff respectivley?
Because these teams are businesses and have a lot of other interests besides Formula 1. There are PR people, physios, offshoot engineering projects..... They aren't all contributing to the performance of the car. It's merely how the teams have expanded.
This is what makes the headcount a bit of a nonsense. Yes, team headcounts will be cut but teams like Ferrari and Mercedes will just 'outsource' some work and expertise to their parent companies.
Because by your "logic"(term used very generously) they would be able to cut that down to 400 and suffer no performance shortfall AT ALL!
Yes, they probably could but that denies the fact that some of these teams are extremely divergent companies.
Half the numbers does not mean half as good, If that was the case Red Bull would have lapped Schumacher 25 times in Hungary, so the flaw sits in your defintion my friend.
Errrr, no. The logic used to get that is so insane it defies belief. Are you seriously suggesting the Red Bull team has 25 times the staff of Mercedes and therefore should be 25 times as good?
That is not what I suggested at all.
Honestly now, can you give me a valid reason why losing 350 staff during the course of a year will have a positive effect on a team?
I didn't say it would have a positive affect. I said there was no evidence that it had affected the performance of the car and that it wasn't the reason why they've gone backwards.