mclaren_mircea wrote:They took 2 people from Ferrari (Sansasavini and Mercanti) and they lost only a simulation engineer to Ferrari. Pat Fry went from Mclaren to Ferrari in 2010, and Sanchez in 2011. To Mercedes they lost no one, only Paddy Lowe who would have left anyway to a Toto Wolff team (he was in discussions with Williams when Wolf was there).
But what is really scarry is what is happening at Mercedes, it seems, that after the financial push for v6 regs, Daimler is brutally cuting the resources for F1
This is not cost cutting, for the final time.
http://richlandf1.com/?p=17534
Giles wood and Mark Ellis, senior figures at Red Bull joined in late December of 2013.
http://www.gptoday.com/details/view/425 ... _Mercedes/
Mike Elliott was signed as Aero chief to aid Costa in April of 2013. Geoff Willis still has his position.
Paddy Lowe joined as a technical director for a sizeable sum of cash as of middle of last year.
Craig Wilson was head of Vehicle dynamics and moved to Williams.
Lawrence Wilkinson was a Control engineer that has moved to Force India.
Brendan Gilhome was an aerdoynamicist who has moved to Torro Rosso.
John Andrewartha has also gone to Torro Rosso.
John Buckley has left F1 entirely and is working for JPB aerdynamics(aviation).
Evangelos Arvanitakis was a junior Aerodynamicist up until 2012, and was cut from the team in July last year!
Richard mead was an Electrics Engineer at Mercedes HPP and has now gone onto a new path of Aerodynamics at Red bull.
Phil Arnaboldi is a mystery, I cant find if he has moved on to another team or just moved out of F1.
Either way, he is packaging, which means he is one of a few people and not the only person.
Florian Puget has gone to Ferrari to shore up their ERS programme which severely lacks what in comparison to Merc.<poached.
Ross Brawn has a natural replacement in Lowe, and I can assure you that there have been a few lower level recruits arrive recently, and McLaren is one of the sources.
In the end, the team has around a 1000 people working for them. You are bringing a list of 12 names which are mostly leaving to lower to mid table teams or leaving the sport entirely.
You are coming to a gunfight with a peashooter
Hermano.
Some basic math based on your
findings...Mercedes have a staff turnover of 1.2%, which is a staff retention of 98.8%.
You fail to bear in mind the number of recruits Mercedes have taken on in the last 24 months, and the nature of the jobs(mainly aero). These are natural losses any team will go through over a year. I would even say this is actually pretty good retention for a team in a shark infested environment such as F1.
And...what do we have here...hmmm
https://careers.mercedes-amg-hpp.com/va ... sults.aspx
4 jobs listed at HPP. And 1 at team proper.
http://careers.mercedesamgf1.com/vacanc ... /technical
So please do not worry about Mercedes. The health of this team is positively bursting with vitality in comparison to the situations at McLaren and Ferrari. And lest we forget, Red Bull are losing now, so Mateschitz of course will want to take his toys and play elsewhere...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula-one/26721387
Now, my Benfica call me to watch as they bid for a spot in final.