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im sure there are a lot of fingers to be pointed and blame to be apportioned but what Williams are going through, their lack of understanding of their problems and the lack of money to fix them is, quite frankly sirs, the predicament i would like to see every F1 team in. |
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I don’t think there would be a long queue for Williams cars. If it was for the Mercs, they would probably bang the door down
At the end of a day it’s a team effort, the most organised usually stay on top and tbh that’s part of the attraction of F1. Seeing which team can make the most of what they have got under them |
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Basically in a way... we are seeing what a cost capped team might look like. The car is not perfect. It has measurable deficiencies. But in the grand scheme of things, gets around the track quickly. Just not quick when compared to it's peers. If everyone was driving around in something similar to the current Williams it might not be a bad thing. The top cars are so nearly "perfect" that they don't break, work well in most all situations, are likely a dream for the driver to drive and yet... are quite boring to watch most of the time. Richard |
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Obviously budget was tight, but investing in R&D could have reaped more rewards than it would have cost
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I think it was more letting Adrian Newey go. He wanted a bigger stake in the company, but they refused, so their loss was McLaren's gain and now Red Bull's
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I think you're right about this, S griffin. Williams have always been very dogmatic in doing things the Williams why and that is/ was part of their appeal, but they could have done more to hold on to Adrian Newey, as it's clear he was integral to a lot of their success. Nowadays, with teams being much bigger and more matrix-style, perhaps the structure for success is a different world from those days, but back then they handed McLaren a massive advantage.
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I also wonder if Toto Wolff leaving in 2013 was another. Not that things were good when he was there, but in hindsight, I wonder if he was doing good given what he had to work with. I don't think his exit was as much as Williams pushing him to leave (in classic Williams style) than him realizing he could do so much more at Mercedes than he ever could at Williams (probably a question of the quantity resources available to him.) I think he had (and may still have) a good relationship with Williams that went beyond him having ownership stake during that period. I attribute his management skills as being a significant factor in allowing Mercedes F1 to execute. Mercedes could have tossed money at F1 and have been another Toyota, but instead they made it work and crushed everyone. Then again, who knows. I think Williams have said they have identified the point in time (decisions?) that turned them south. I think most assume that was recent with that reflecting on the current cars, but maybe they are looking way back to someone like Toto and saying he screwed things up before he left and gave Claire a mess. I actually say that jokingly because I think I have seen interviews with Claire and Toto separately and I think they have good things to say to about each other today. If I remember correctly, I "think" Toto was involved in the process of putting Claire into her current position as part of his departure. Richard |
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I would speculate that the family made decisions about Frank leaving that have bitten them on the bum hard, simply that and no more. Everything that has happened since has been born form those decisions.
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Williams must do something soon starting from the back every race is not going to attract sponsors and unless they improve soon i have serious doubts they can keep going
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They have a long established team whose physical engineering assets and facilities would be attractive to anyone. It is the management that has allowed this to happen and I wonder how far the family will allow the ship to sink before facing facts and doing something about the problems they themselves have caused.
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Sounds like a sarcastic back hander to the management of Williams, Claire Williams to be precise.
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Well he was probably their best hope. Now let's see if Head's advisory role does anything
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The simple fact that they couldn't even manage to arrive at the all important preseason test days,totally organized and ready to go, says everything about Williams you need to know.
That is solely down to hopeless mismanagement.How the hell can a dedicated F1 Team arrive, for arguably four of the most important days of the season, and still be screwing their car together. That can only happen because the management isn't managing.....pathetic. |
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The previous two posts actually encapsulate why he had to go.After a long enough spell to form an opinion of the capabilities of the team he should have been able to understand the strong and weak points and act accordingly.We are given to understand that there was a purge of middle managers at Grove late last year which hints that something was awry.Then the team shows up at the second test-not the first as the car was incomplete-and the car has suspension that doesn't comply with the regulations.
A few weeks later George Russell admits that there is a fundamental problem with the car and it will take months to fix.Months have now passed and any improvement is no more than the teams with initially superior cars have made and the relative positions are pretty much unchanged.I hope for the sake of Williams that the major change will be in place after the summer break and a string of decent finishes comes along.It might give enough of a confidence boost to help with the sponsorship situation next year and it would raise morale at Grove.It all hinges on whether the engineering brains still in place can come up with an effective solution as there is no indication of any of the better known names being recruited.If a car with a Mercedes engine is at the back at a circuit like Monza we will have an answer I suppose. |
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