sidmiester wrote:im so sorry michael because he deserved more... but cmon guys, michael himself admitted that he didnt want to continue. so we got lewis, we needed to end it right there.
anyway i think lewis will be very demanding, thats exactly kind of attitude we need in this team. i think lewis and nico is a great partnership, and it would be the first chassis designed by costa/elliot under the leadership of bell, so i am expecting some good things from this team.
and lauda appointment is a good thing, he was very straightforward that W03 was nowhere near compettitive and they needed to go back to drawing board. i am expecting some good things from W04. maybe not like as competitive as bulls or mclarens or ferraris, but consistently good, like lotus of this year.
wih lauda i am expecting some serious scrutiny ... because our board has gone too soft so far... we need some montezemolo-like- treatment from zetche!
atleast i am expecting improvements on race pace...
with bigois/john owen/bell i didnt have same confidence, but with costa/elliot/bell i do. i think they will improve, and hope this team will change in the lower division as well, because team has remained unchanged for quite a while except at the top level;technical heads, they need to change at lower division as well. well janaury testing cant come soon enough
does anyone know when will be w04 unveiling?
Bob Bell has failed twice. W02 was barely launched when he joined & he failed in in-season development. He failed miserably with WO3.
Costa joined in December last year so he's had 1 year already. 1 Full Year. When he joined there was still 3-4 months left before the car was to be launched & he was surely in the loop much before. He failed with IN-Season Development. The Coanda which he advocated & even a team like Force India mastered bombed & failed.
Costa-Willis-Bell are rejects who have failed miserably & have had no hope.
Bell left, James Key left & now Elliot but it makes no difference to Renault who has a smaller budget & less money but a wondeful team who continue to make great cars. I think its more the engineering side, the quality in mass, the organizational structure. I dont think Elliot has a magic wand.
Mercedes team is doomed. There only hope after they destroy Hamilton & Nico's career is if they can lure a Hulkenberg who will be big or maybe a Vettel(very unlikely) in 2016 with a huge 30-40Million Euros Salary & the German dream.