Absolutely. I’ve had it myself, backing up decisions with research, evidence, testing, and some boss just dismisses the lot because they want their own idea.hollus wrote: ↑17 Feb 2019, 14:29That was an thoroughly enjoyable read, thanks.
Containing a gem on how decisions are taken in large organizations with huge marketing departments that hire a guy just to work 24/7 in the image of the team:The concept for the final livery came directly from Gene Haas.
People should also remember that that year was the first of the new rules and most teams where in an awful state apart from mercedes powered teams.Giblet wrote: ↑17 Feb 2019, 19:32People should remember: In 2014 Red Bull showed up, mated the chassis and engine for pretty much for the first time, were drilling holes everywhere and getting barely any laps through all of testing.
The won 3 races that year.
All the teams push the envelope, and Williams with a smaller budget has arguably a larger problem to fix based on their car last year.
I give them a break.
Great read and very enlightening, thanks for postingScottB wrote: ↑15 Feb 2019, 20:37
Here's quite an interesting read from the guy who worked on Haas' original livery that sheds some light on the restrictions and competing views that I would imagine are common:
https://medium.com/@jonrowlandson/desig ... 15931be026
This is also the first year of new rules. The 2014 regs weren’t that big a change in chassis terms compared with e.g. 2009. The 2019 regs have arguably huge implications due to the limit to outwash. Considering Williams had more to do than all the other teams to figure out why its wind tunnel and CFD data didn’t match real life and figure out why the 2018 car wasn’t performing as advertised before they could do much work on this year, not to mention reorganising its technical department, I can’t say it comes as a huge surprise that they’re a day or two late. I don’t understand why people are reading such doom and gloom into it. It might presage another bad year but equally it might not. Let’s wait and see.marmer wrote: ↑17 Feb 2019, 21:05People should also remember that that year was the first of the new rules and most teams where in an awful state apart from mercedes powered teams.
This year all Williams had to do was alter the aero. Very little else has changed it's not even like they have swapped engine so most of that will be exactly the same
Very good point. But what Williams is dealing with is a fraction of the budget of Red Bull and an entirely new car from what I understand.marmer wrote: ↑17 Feb 2019, 21:05People should also remember that that year was the first of the new rules and most teams where in an awful state apart from mercedes powered teams.Giblet wrote: ↑17 Feb 2019, 19:32People should remember: In 2014 Red Bull showed up, mated the chassis and engine for pretty much for the first time, were drilling holes everywhere and getting barely any laps through all of testing.
The won 3 races that year.
All the teams push the envelope, and Williams with a smaller budget has arguably a larger problem to fix based on their car last year.
I give them a break.
This year all Williams had to do was alter the aero. Very little else has changed it's not even like they have swapped engine so most of that will be exactly the same
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