Sabotage

Like all conspiracy theories, it's appealing - but experience tells that in most cases explanations are simpler... I'd suspect pure incompetence as a more likely cause.

 

Seriously, does this make him any less of an engineer?

 

I’d love to think the solution was that simple, I’ll send timebomb there to run security, and when we find the scumbag we will bury them in the grounds of fiorano. However, I’m not so sure it could be that

 

A very hot day, I presume?

 

Yes, it's called Upper Management.

 

Quanto vino??

 

It was an interesting story that at Mercs home race both Ferrari’s which have been mostly reliable had an issue killing their qualifying. I don’t put anything past the people in F1. Quite literally ANYTHING is possible. If it was sabotage then it failed because the Ferrari’s were flying and Merc self destructed in a slow suicide. It was quite beautiful.

 

Nigel Stepney style?

his untimely death: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news/formula-one-man-dives-in-25025/

 

3 ltr cheapest lambrusco

 

Black Magic ?

 

Nah. Everybody wants a nutter engineering his F1 or six figure road car.......

 

Testing his temp sensor.

 

Maybe they could use that kind of thinking.

 

Sabotage? Naaahh.

'Lights in the night sky ....little green men......

 

If they can’t have a good story, they might as well have an interesting one!

 

It does seem they are not focusing on having the best pit and really have slidden down on pit performance.

 

If there is any sabotage its from the Leadership vacuum left by Marchionne. No offense to the Italian people -but this is what those of us in the English world talk about being too latin -or too Italian. From watching and cheering for Ferrari from 1972 on, I think if you look at the successful times vs. the unsuccessful times it's pretty clear its down to Leadership.

When Enzo was alive and he had someone who was direct and to the point telling him the truth - the team was successful... Montezemolo the first time, Forghiere, and then Piccinni..... then After he died - the Montezemolo, Todt, Brawn, Byrne. It was only when Montezemolo instituted " an all Italian" framework, that Ferrari started to suffer from more internal politics, and then the press got ahold of them again. Today - Marchionne did not have enough time to consolidate his control. and John Elkan and the rest of the Angelli Family are not experienced enough managers... Piero is not well thought of internally, and there is nobody else who commands the loyalty and fear needed.

Ferrari have ground Vettel down into a shell of himself, and Leclerc is too young yet to realize it ... Sabotage? yes, but its from within - and they don't even realize it. How can you spend almost $1B on an F-1 team and not complete qualifying? its beyond embarrassing, its shameful. its like having sticky switches in a $500K car? how can that be?... simply nobody cares, and they are believing their own story.

 

Tire changes are hardly the issue. tire strategy, and engineering for Qualifying is very poor. Again its a lack of leadership. Binotto may be a fine engineer, but to be a leader you have to be in charge, and use the whip and carrot from time to time. There should be no complaints about the drivers until they can deliver a reliable car. that is #1 - you have to be there to finish.

 

"if non e vero, e ben trovato..."

 

It's Ferrari. They are known for "Grande Casino", "Grande Chaos" and all that. They have been a disaster for years after the Lauda days. It took an entire dream team (MS, Brawn, Todt and others) and 5 years to get them back on track. Now we're just back where we were before the dream team years. Just another symphony by the "Panic orchestra".