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The big picture:
https://i.postimg.cc/htnX0Q7j/image.png

Seems like a trend to me. There was a "Silverstone update". Double points finish in Silverstone. Anomaly at Spa because of sprint weekend and Eau Rouge ground clearance. Double points in Hungary.

So the "Eau Rouge ground clearance" statement is very interesting. In Hungry, even when Alonso was going all out he was coming off the throttle early down the start finish straight. Duriing the race, I just thought he was STILL lifting coasting... When you combine that with Russell's statement "That braking at top speed down the start/finish straight in Hungry was where the plank got most consumed...". It starts to paint a picture of where their problems are/have been.

[Ashwinv16]

The big picture:
https://i.postimg.cc/htnX0Q7j/image.png

Seems like a trend to me. There was a "Silverstone update". Double points finish in Silverstone. Anomaly at Spa because of sprint weekend and Eau Rouge ground clearance. Double points in Hungary.

So the "Eau Rouge ground clearance" statement is very interesting. In Hungry, even when Alonso was going all out he was coming off the throttle early down the start finish straight. Duriing the race, I just thought he was STILL lifting coasting... When you combine that with Russell's statement "That braking at top speed down the start/finish straight in Hungry was where the plank got most consumed...". It starts to paint a picture of where their problems are/have been.

Hungary teams always underfuel so likely normal lift and coasting. With no safety cars it makes sense. Alonso did some lift and coast.

[diffuser]

The big picture:
https://i.postimg.cc/htnX0Q7j/image.png

Seems like a trend to me. There was a "Silverstone update". Double points finish in Silverstone. Anomaly at Spa because of sprint weekend and Eau Rouge ground clearance. Double points in Hungary.

So the "Eau Rouge ground clearance" statement is very interesting. In Hungry, even when Alonso was going all out he was coming off the throttle early down the start finish straight. Duriing the race, I just thought he was STILL lifting coasting... When you combine that with Russell's statement "That braking at top speed down the start/finish straight in Hungry was where the plank got most consumed...". It starts to paint a picture of where their problems are/have been.

Hungary teams always underfuel so likely normal lift and coasting. With no safety cars it makes sense. Alonso did some lift and coast.

He had done lift coast on the last 10 laps or so on the mediums specifically to have fuel to run high power STRATs on hard, Alonso and his Engineer talked about it in the onboards. In fact he was doing lift & coast into turn 1 under STRAT 11, which is "Hammer Time" mode.

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except for TP since Andy is on a temporary assignment.

No, he isn't. He wanted to flatten the structure and combine the CEO and TP role, like Wolff or Horner/Mekies.

[diffuser]

except for TP since Andy is on a temporary assignment.

No, he isn't. He wanted to flatten the structure and combine the CEO and TP role, like Wolff or Horner/Mekies.

There was alot of noise last year with regards to the Race Team trying to tell the factory what to do. That was cause Krack headed up both the Factory and the race team. He can no longer do that, being that now he only heads up the race team.

The Factory is now headed up by Cardile. They both now answer to Cowoll.

Not sure how that makes it flatter?

[-wkst-]

https://www.astonmartinf1.com/en-GB/new ... estructure

Responsibilities inside the team weren't always clear, overlapping responsibilites from one to another department. Former CEO Whitmarsh became famous for his "matrix-management" at McLaren.

It seems like Cowell just returned to a more traditional system, what he knows from Mercedes. It looks like Krack as "chief trackside officer" is basically doing the same things as Andrew Shovlin as "trackside engineering director" at Mercedes. Just with the difference that Krack is directly reporting to the CEO/TP and Shovlin is reporting to the Technical Director. In my humble opinion this could be to save the face of Krack, after being demoted.

However the trackside team is very small compared to the technical departments in the factory.

[diffuser]

https://www.astonmartinf1.com/en-GB/new ... estructure

Responsibilities inside the team weren't always clear, overlapping responsibilites from one to another department. Former CEO Whitmarsh became famous for his "matrix-management" at McLaren.

It seems like Cowell just returned to a more traditional system, what he knows from Mercedes. It looks like Krack as "chief trackside officer" is basically doing the same things as Andrew Shovlin as "trackside engineering director" at Mercedes. Just with the difference that Krack is directly reporting to the CEO/TP and Shovlin is reporting to the Technical Director. In my humble opinion this could be to save the face of Krack, after being demoted.

However the trackside team is very small compared to the technical departments in the factory.

Cause they did that for Fallows? From what I've seen at AM F1 from past history, they fire people for not doing the job to the expectations.

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And from our position, from the outside, it is clear that Krack didn’t do his job properly? We will never know what were his actions or what decisions directly came from Whitmarsh. Cowell was obviously happy to continue working with hin, unlike others.

[zoroastar]

https://www.planetf1.com/aston-martin/u ... ance-boost

[diffuser]

And from our position, from the outside, it is clear that Krack didn’t do his job properly? We will never know what were his actions or what decisions directly came from Whitmarsh. Cowell was obviously happy to continue working with hin, unlike others.

What we do know is he is still here and Fallows isn't.

Who was the other guy that got let go? I keep thinking it's Marshall but he went to McLaren from RBR.

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McCullough was sidelined to the performance technologies company.

Fallows? Don't know if he was good or not. The results were not there and Newey criticized the aero department (Fallows led until Autumn) on the teams own website. I guess that says a lot.