Seems things at Ferrari made Allison leave--- http://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/36936300 --This was Ferrari's first race since they split with their technical director James Allison, a decision that mystified many in the paddock, where the 48-year-old Englishman is rated as probably the paddock's next most foremost aerodynamic design leader after Red Bull's genius Adrian Newey. When Ferrari announced Allison's departure on Wednesday, it was assumed by some that it must be related to the tragic and unexpected sudden death of his wife in March. But if this was an issue, it was only a peripheral one. In fact, it seems that the relationship between Allison and Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne and team principal Maurizio Arrivabene had broken down. Marchionne has been busy reorganising the team. Sources close to Ferrari say Allison - a man who knows his mind - had disagreed with what was being done. There had been a couple of flash points over the past couple of months, and eventually it was agreed that their relationship could go no further.--
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What, a glorified accountant can't run a race team? Wow. I'm shocked. Way to go sweater on destroying Ferrari. You and the Elkans can be happy now.
If he runs Ferrari into the ground I expect a lynch mob we haven't seen for the best part of 400 years.
There's no 'if' Bas, my friend. We are witnessing it before our eyes. The question is whether there will be anything to salvage or not when he is gone, from the race team or the road car division.
What a joke.. I can't even bear to follow it.. Ferrari as a team is exploding and self combusting from within.. Laughing stock of the pit lane.. I had high hopes that this year would come good.. Instead it is the Italian soap opera.. They won't even dig themselves out for the next 400years.. Gives a lesson in how to destroy once a great team.. Might as well go back and back Mclaren.. At least they are knuckling down and getting on with it.. Even Red Bull has pulled itself back to respectability after its meltdown..
Sweater and cigarette boy have no business doing what they're doing. They're best at killing morale and competitive spirit while wasting time and huge amounts of cash. Not to mention Seb and Kimi. Sad for Allison, but he'll be fine. Let's get the sweater in the drawing room. Ferrari panders to whatever money there is, Elkanns strip mining their own holdings. Let Sergio do the whole car like he wants. Luca is lucky he got out, and Piero isn't bright enough to do a thing about any of it.
Well Ferrari is a racing team not a person or a doctor. So yah it is a disaster. It compromises the 2017 car which will likely put them out of contention next year.
They will be out of contention for the next 2-3years without a key technical leader and that assumes there is not a revolving door policy with Sergio wanting results yesterday. A title is years away at the present moment.
Yep, I called it. So anyone they poach from another team will have to take that mandatory 12-mth gardening leave, so 2017 is pretty much out. If they can poach someone to replace Allison over this summer break, the soonest that person can cross over is next summer, perhaps in time to work on the 2018 car. Then there are the inevitable transitioning growing pains and the likely departure of other key personnel following Allison, and the consequent search for their replacements, the lack of continuity continues...2018 will be a write off then too. So 2019 then gents? But by then, there'll probably be new regs...so really, 2020 we'll have a shot... Sh!et, my Ferrari sucks thread is really going to be around awhile...
Sergio would be better spending his time sorting out FCA and the abysmal products across all the mainstream brands.
Brundle was hearing this around the paddock last weekend. Most teams know how the timing of these events work, and the impacts over time as well.
Ferrari to adopt McLaren-style technical structure Discuss. to be fair, the car has made decent leaps forward, and big part of it being so far down in the field is the terrible engine. That said, it's been undriveable at some tracks (Hungary for example, it kept spinning for no reason).
so this is Ferrari admitting that Alonso is right for criticizing the team? since now they're copying the team structure he moved into? where are the finger pointers now for claiming Alonso brought down the team? where are you?
Translation: everybody is in gardening leave so it will take a while to find Allison´s replacement but while we wait we can´t tell Binotto that he´s just a placeholder.
