It rained at the Styrian?
I assumed he meant in terms of the race format/circuit length etc. but thanks
It rained at the Styrian?
I assumed he meant in terms of the race format/circuit length etc. but thanks
@IanW Do you know Stuart Harris? Contract designer at Williams, RBR and AM over the last few years.
Met up with him today to relieve him of some rather large speakers...
Hi Canonman, no I do not know Stuart Harris. I know a lot of people who work or who have worked in F1, but Williams tends to have people working there for a very long time and I would be less likely to know them.
What are these rather large speakers?
Jean Todt's Ferrari was a generational team of brilliant individuals in all areas of the team. No one individual was solely responsible for that winning streak just as Toto's Mercedes isn't either. I think from my perspective that they both achieved success but in different ways. Jean was an old fashioned boss but with very strong lieutenants in Rory and Ross. Bespoke tyres with Bridgestone, the best driver in the world (MSC), very strong car development team Aldo Costa (part of the Merc team 2014 to 2019, now at Dallara and rumoured to be on Ferraris list currently), Nikolas Tombazis (current FIA technical director). Jean had a win at all costs approach both technically and legally as we saw from many legal and marginal ethical strategies. People also forget that Jean was TP at Ferrari for 7 years before they won the WDC and MSC did not face the depth of talent that earlier and later generations did - not discounting Alonso or Hakkinnen but they peaked at different times and there were not any others at that level.
The Merc team was built by Ross Brawn and Bob Bell and a few others who knew how to build a very good culture. Toto joined in quite late but took it and continued the process. He effectively got rid of Ross (it was really the Merc board that got rid of Ross by bringing Toto in) and Bob, but by then the culture had been built, over quite a few years. Toto showed that he does make mistakes, by bringing in Paddy and getting rid of Ross and Bob. Now Paddy has been replaced by James Allison and nothing changes. If James Allison were to be replaced by a lamp post then it would continue to work very well at Merc because the structure and the culture have continued down that path.I am not sure Jean ever eliminated the blame culture either, I think he suppressed it with force of personality and results (always helps) but it was always still there. This is where Toto has exceeded Todt's achievements. He has built a non blame culture and one with a wide and deep vein of talent and promotion culture at Mercedes. No one person can create success or cause failure, they really do seem to work as the perfect team. I would love to sit down with IanW for a pint to discuss his experiences at the team, I am sure it is not all flowers and happy smiles but you cannot deny it is hugely effective.
Hi Ian
I will pm you re Stuart. The speakers are TDL Monitor 4 way transmission line speakers bu in need of a huge amount of work. 47 kg each.
Project is an understatement!
The FIA could not prove that they didn't.To me, given the performance drop from Ferrari this season, it seems their engine must have contravened the regulations last year. Should their results still stand?
The FIA could not prove that they didn't.
I cannot comment any further than that!
I just let these things go. It’s not important. Even if you’re in F1, why get upset? It’s only a game.It stinks to me. I thought the other teams were demanding an explanation and not accepting a whitewash?
If this was anyone else, they would have been fined massively, results deleted and more.
I just let these things go. It’s not important. Even if you’re in F1, why get upset? It’s only a game.
To me, it skews the results - as it stands. Ferrari got 3 wins that they most probably should not have in 2019. Then there is all their 2019 placings which should also be disqualified and they should also lose their prize monies. But it's Ferrari....so it's a whitewash and brushed under the carpet.
BTW, I think Ferrari made the right decision with Seb. He is a selfish liability in the car and certainly not a team player. He has proved this at RBR and Ferrari and is now getting a taste of his own medicine. I really like him out of the car though.
It stinks to me. I thought the other teams were demanding an explanation and not accepting a whitewash?
If this was anyone else, they would have been fined massively, results deleted and more.
By a strange coincidence I joined McLaren in 1990 after working on mathematical models and then flight testing of the Tornado IDS Terrain Following Radar.As I said, I can just let it go. I know and appreciate all that, but it just doesn't affect me. And it affects me even less in the current situation. I'd love to have got into F1 when I left the RAF in 1990 (I was servicing fly by wire actuators from Tornados) but I chose a different path. Perhaps I'd care more if I'd tried hard to join a team.
By a strange coincidence I joined McLaren in 1990 after working on mathematical models and then flight testing of the Tornado IDS Terrain Following Radar.
Not much need of a TFR across the fens!
Tony,
My dear old dad bless him used to work for Nagretti Zambra who made valves etc for gasses amongst other things.
He told me the Tornado had a tail fin fuel tank which once drained was filled with pressurised O2 during peacetime but inert gas ( nitrogen or helium maybe?) during hostile missions to avoid combustion of fuel remnants..... except when they were fully pressurised with the inert gas, the system leaked like a sieve. This was probably during the Falklands war build up era, so close to your spannering time on them... Any truth to it? He did like to spin a few far fetched stories back in the day. Just wondering..............