FoxHound wrote:Pierce89 wrote:
Lewis left because he could see Merc was a better team slowly building up to its potential. I'm also sick of people scapegoating Whitmarsh. He never once participated in the design teams. That's where the problem is: the design office with their silver bullet design philosophy.
Oh indeed. The problem lies not with Whitmarsh or Button, but in the way McLaren turns its ideas into reality. There is a chasm between what they think will be a performance boost and the reality.
This is not a drivers fault, one could say not a team principals fault given that Whitmarsh was restricted by budgets and overall authority.
Dennis has jumped back into the pool, and has found there bigger sharks to deal with now. When allied to the loss of Mercedes money, official backing, Hamilton and Lowe, the ship rocked. If there was sentiment that last year was a blip, this year has proven there are deep sested issues inside the design team. And there also appears to be a disconnect between their PR and the design team.
Honda may well be a solution if there problems persist. But Mclaren have some big issues to deal with and Honda will not be forthcoming with answers to all the problems.
Yes, but all this is indirectly correlated with Whitmarsh. A too nice guy interest in FOTA and not to ruthless follow Mclaren's interests. Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull all of them thrived in this context of bad management of Mclaren. He should have clearly favoured Hamilton on whatever team mate he had. He should have protected Lewis and not let an averege driver like Button to have so much power in Mclaren. Even is Lewis had ups and downs he would always be a better driver than Button. Whitmarsh prefered Button because it is the same type of person like him. He doesn't have the fire inside to move the mountaints, to create something big by himself like Hamilton, Alonso, Newey. If you have such a diamond in your team whatever it's a driver or an engineer you should give him all you support and make him clearly that the team is his house. I can't understant Whitmarsh's stupidity to tell Mclaren's board that Button it's as good as Hamilton.
It's Whitmarsh's fault that he let those engineers to go and to hire only graduates and young engineers from universities.
It's Whitmarsh's fault that he did not put Button in his place. He should made him clear that he is inferior to Hamilton as talent and even if he would respect and pay him, he will never be equal to Hamilton.
It's Whitmarsh's fault that when it was clear that Red Bull and Ferrari retreated from FOTA and were not respecting the budget restrictions, he didn't make a call to ron saying: "Hi, Ron, Fer and RB are spending more than us, are not respecting RRA, gives us some money and let's went out of FOTA"
It's Whitmarsh fault that he didn't try to steal engineers from other bigs until very late in 2013, and only after Ron started to take care again by the F1 team again (Firing Perez,hiring Magnussen, pomping aggresivly money from the Group to the F1 team).
It's Whitmarsh's fault the bad management in which the employees didn't have a direction and were distracted by too much other objectives, they didn't knew "where the North is". It was necesary that Ron come back openly to start to rebuild all this damage that was caused by the highest position within Mclaren Racing.
