I like JV, he took the massive money on what may have been a contender. Can’t fault him as Williams had a non competitive engine the following year. The odour from Craig Pillock and the last Tyrrell season in F1 were equally pungent. At least the Tyrrells left with cash in hand but the team was itself was existing on Rosset funds and Pillock made certain the Tyrrell name went out as tepid grid filler.
I loved McLaren when Bruce and Dennis were running the CanAm in 1967. Never liked them in F1 as they always seemed to favour one driver over another and never really let the drivers compete. Thoughts of Prost at Monza in 1989 (I saw the mechanics put the spaghetti in Prost's car).
Don't hate me, but I have no real beef with any team sans Ferrari, but I wouldn't even call it a beef, more like an annoyance. My love/hate relationship with Ferrari stems from their largely 'Italian-only' and 'quick (often from anger) poor decision- making' mentality they heavily prescribed to post the Brawn/Todt days. They fire a huge number of outstanding people only to get shot in the foot when that person gets snapped up by another team who then beats Ferrari. Brawn/Todt didn't run it that way, and they won. Ferrari have an unfair and absurd amount of funds poured on them just because they are Ferrari, and they still haven't bagged a championship for 10+ years which points to nothing more than bad management and hasty decision making. That said, they're Ferrari, you have to love the passion, even if it's misdirected into making hugely poor decisions that lead to their demise. Mercedes is the Ferrari of the Brawn era. Run very much the same way IMO, but add-nauseam the extremely German aspects which, what can I say, are extremely German.
