Raptor22 wrote:
HILARIOUS stuff from McLaren.Ron, please come back.
Ermm, short memories? Mclaren under Ron Dennis had silly error's too and even not so long ago was involved in arguably F1's worst espionage case? The result of which was a complete loss of all constructor points.
I do not see how in the case of a random mechanical error Whitmarsh can be blamed. He seems to be the easy scape-goat people use when they want to blame Mclaren for something.
The Ferrari pit light system was responsible for costing the team in 2008 I believe? Now that same system is being used by several teams on the grid. Some systems will go through failures before they are completely reliable. The failure on the pit jack means Mclaren can go away and learn from it, and hopefully not suffer from the same mistake again. The jack was said to have failed in practice a few times but the team obviously felt that it was worth the risk. And would you argue that, given Mclaren were probably the quickest pit crew this weekend, at least when the got it right.
But the point of my post was to question why Whitmarsh is constantly used a scape-goat when under Ron, Mclaren was at least as mistake ridden as now. That has nothing to do with only the management but simply a list of factors I would dream of thinking about it.
These days fans of Mclaren and fans of Lewis only want to blame Whitmarsh for every incident.
