He didn't agree with the on track strategy call in Mexico. He was in favor for Hamilton doing a 1 stop if he wanted. Also he doens't agree with Toto's (driver)management style.J0rd4n wrote:Sorry if it's already been posted, but rumours Niki Lauda is going to quit the team after a fall-out with Wolff:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/for ... 602805.ece
There is no reason given but wouldn't be surprised if it's related to the driver spat on track.
Niki Lauda has a very similar function to Helmut Marko: kind of a consultant.astracrazy wrote:Lauda doesn't really have a job to do at Merc. He oversees, he doesn't make the decisions Toto and Paddy do. Regardless though, I wouldn't say he hasn't finished the job. Back to back double champions. When does the job become finished? When they move back down the grid?
The pattern for me here is key people from Merc have left and it seems to involve power hungry Toto. Ross and now Lauda.
I believe we have to be careful here.Jolle wrote:It would be a shame to loose Lauda if that is really the case. When I started to follow f1 back in 1984 as a little lad, his story was one that defined formula one for me.
But looking at his whole history in F1, I think he never finished a job, apart from his final season for McLaren. He left Ferrari as a WC before the season ended in '77, left Brabbam before the saison ended. Been on the payroll for Ferrari as an advisor, been involved with Jaguar racing and left before he could get anything done, did he had a job at McLaren at one point as well? And now Mercedes...
It's a bit of a pattern
He's more a transformational manager then.Jolle wrote:It would be a shame to loose Lauda if that is really the case. When I started to follow f1 back in 1984 as a little lad, his story was one that defined formula one for me.
But looking at his whole history in F1, I think he never finished a job, apart from his final season for McLaren. He left Ferrari as a WC before the season ended in '77, left Brabbam before the saison ended. Been on the payroll for Ferrari as an advisor, been involved with Jaguar racing and left before he could get anything done, did he had a job at McLaren at one point as well? And now Mercedes...
It's a bit of a pattern
I think perhaps Lauda's other big contribution was realising what the Merc marketing department hadn't ... that having a non-German driver winning is more marketable to Mercedes than Simply having two German drivers.XRayF1 wrote:I believe we have to be careful here.Jolle wrote:It would be a shame to loose Lauda if that is really the case. When I started to follow f1 back in 1984 as a little lad, his story was one that defined formula one for me.
But looking at his whole history in F1, I think he never finished a job, apart from his final season for McLaren. He left Ferrari as a WC before the season ended in '77, left Brabbam before the saison ended. Been on the payroll for Ferrari as an advisor, been involved with Jaguar racing and left before he could get anything done, did he had a job at McLaren at one point as well? And now Mercedes...
It's a bit of a pattern
There is always the point how the job was actually defined.
At Ferrari, I believe his actual task was to get Jean Todt to the team.
For Mercedes, it was to get Mercedes on the Bernie-Ecclestone money bonus track.
Both were achieved.
http://gptoday.com/full_story/view/5458 ... Merc_rift/"There is absolutely nothing to discuss," he said. "I have a contract until 2017 – which I want to fulfil. I do not know who is writing these stories, but the truth is… Toto and I are working together in harmony, everything is wonderful."
I'm pretty sure you can be removed or voted off from the board and still own sharesFoxHound wrote:He owns part of the team, any motion to remove Lauda will need to involve him or a massively expensive buyout.
Either way it has been denied by Lauda as media BS.