Horner to Ferrari !

This goes back decades, look at Lauda, Prost etc who said similar things in those very different era's. The problem in part seems to be there is no team ethos at all and unfortunately the buck stops with the TP, its his job to get the various part of the team working coherently together. Strategy is a good example, has this really got better in the last 5 years, my view no, if anything actually worse.

My point is these problems have to lesser and greater degrees being present for decades.

 

I assume you mean Fred, although you could have meant Horner or both.

Let Fred run the Races, let Horner run car development.

 

>>>>THIS <<<<

 

So, counter to all those snarks about Horner calling around to every team, this version sounds like Ferrari are pursuing him and offering rather extraordinary accommodations as well!

 

I don’t see how Vasseur running the races would help. Strategy, tactics and racecraft have been at least as poor as the equipment.

 

SPOT ON. For too long they've rode their own coattails. How many championship drivers have they burned through since Raikkonen? Each of them brought in to restore the 'glory' at Ferrari with a championship but finding only disappointment when the reality of working there becomes clear. The average age of a F1 driver is less than 30 years old. Many of the current crop of drivers and the next upcoming generation have grown up seeing Ferrari flounder around the grid. That could make it hard to pull top talent. This board is made up of hardcore racing fans that have watched this downward spiral in real time.

The real question is - does Ferrari truly care anymore about this? It doesn't seem to be a priority. They're Ferrari. If they wanted it fixed they would fix it. At the end of the day, they're selling their cars (maybe the new odd design language will challenge sales - we'll see), the merch flies off the shelf, the stock price defies gravity. Granted the day will eventually come when that's no longer enough but in the meantime it's quickly becoming just another lifestyle brand. It's the same kind of short sightedness we see at other publicly traded companies that live quarter by quarter, and a disappointing trend to those who are true rabid fans of the brand.

 

Dude, you nailed everything wrong with this Godforsaken team.