Bill wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 3:02 pm
lewis and toto being too political has hurt Mercedes how can they lose over 200 people its a disaster they are lucky the can always rely on knowhow from Germany. Their turbo was built using expertise from their truck division for example. Lewis after causing a mess is running off to ferrari.
0/10 take.
Lewis has no obligation to anyone but himself. Political? Yeah, 1000+ person corporations aren’t effected at all by Lewis’s “political” work, which is really low level in comparison to a lot of organizations.
The issue for Merc is the cost cap and not setting up themselves for success by being a lean / efficient organization, but being large and bureaucratic, and brut forcing their success by virtue of just being larger than everyone.
Redbull was set up as a lean efficient organization from the get go. It took Mclaren a long time to revamp. Merc, well they’re still feeling the effects.
What also isn’t talked about is that Merc will be supplying one less team on the grid in 2026, and that naturally will result in a reduction of man power as well.