It’s painful to see the lessons learned in one generation being lost - or even deliberately forgotten - by the next generation in their ego-driven scramble to establish themselves and make their own mark… I have personal experience of this at a lower level in a different field, so it’s not conjecture. Indeed it seems to be an abiding characteristic of the human species (lessons of history &c…), sadly…
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The teams are so big because the budgets are so big. The money is therefore spent on how the team owner thinks that they can get the best championship result. That results in a lot of engineers.
Having said that the budget cap was introduced in 2021 (cap reducing further in 22 and 23) to reduce the size of the teams from, maybe 1000 people at Mercedes before the budget cap to around 450 full time employees now working in their F1 team. The big teams made some people redundant and opened up a technology arm to do other projects and when needed they could get some extra help from the employees in the separate technical arm. This allows them quite a bit of flexibility, but at the end of it all the budget cap translates to around 450 to 500 full time employees, i.e. a lot less than the 1000 plus pre budget cap.
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Top Gun 3 is looking good….
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For once I agree with Verstappen
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I find myself in half minds. The traditionalist in me dislikes it (much like my dislike of pyjama cricket), but the other half thinks that more racing can’t be all wrong.
While I’m constantly pushing for change at work, I find I struggle with change in my sports.
I think that may be a “me” problem.
Well this has been entertaining
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“Entertaining” is a curious choice of words.
“Bizarre” I think may be more appropriate.
Who else thinks the Fred Vasseur is out of his depth ?
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Normal people like it when F1 gets crashy-bashy.
Me, I pity the poor bastards that had to sit thru that marathon of randomness, bad-decisions, misjudgement and plain bad luck. The Readers Digest Condensed version on Channel 4 at least eschews the tedium.
And yeah, Vasseur looks like a man dragged unwillingly out of retirement and told to weave ropes out of beach sand…
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He was always going to be.
Getting rid of Binotto was one of Ferraris more stupid decisions IMO, proving the current management doesn’t understand F1 and Leclerc has believed all the bollocks about the driver needing to lead the team - it is and always was bollocks IME.
De Montezemolo was grandstanding a few days ago claiming he put together the perfect team of Todt, Brawn and Byrne before hiring Schumacher! What a total dick.
Ross toild me the most important and effective part of Todt’s role as manager was keeping de Montemezemolo as far out of it as possible to stop him f*cking it up as badly as he had been doing for years.
It was Schumacher who wanted him at arms length and for Ross and Rory to join when he found the engine to be excellent and chassis weak, the opposite of “common knowledge” amongst the press at the time.
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Seems like an exact replica of Space X and the elongated muskrat. From what I have seen and heard, a significant portion of Gwynne Shotwell’s job is stopping Musk from doing anything more than helping bring in funding when required. It’s also quite telling how much history washing Musk likes to do on that front. He founded none of the companies he’s known for, yet he’s there listed as the founder almost everywhere.
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Oooof!
This is the problem with ‘private life’, if you don’t tell em’ they just make it up anyway.
Disgusting.
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Yeah so V12 then 
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needs to be a level matched blind test
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Did they decide to sack the editor before or after the family threatened legal action?
The article was in the magazine dated 15 April.
The news to take legal action announced on 19 April.
The press announcement of the sacking on 21 April:
I’d say the decision to sack the editor was made after and/or because of the threat for legal action.