When you hire individuals - more of them come. When you fire/loose one - more of them go away.
Like when Newey came to RBR and then his 'friends came around'
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Every team has and needs a good leader. While that one person does not do all the work or account for all the effort, they are responsible for the direction of the team. If the team do bad, then the leader has to be replaced for the team to go in another (hopefully better) direction. I think the complexity lies in how long you should wait to see results from the team/leader relationship. Certainly, the leader needs to earn respect from the team, which is not instantaneous. I'm sure it gets much more complicated, but as I see it Toyota and Honda are running without a good leader at this point.One man doesn't make a team, I don't care what anyone says!
I guess he is finally speaking out, via an article in F1 racing. I'd like to read the rest of the article!"Oh dear! What should have been a development of the competent 2006 car [which Willis designed] has turned into a nightmare," he wrote in an article for F1 Racing Magazine. "It looks as though most of the lessons of 2005-2006 have either been forgotten or ignored, and the development momentum of the last races of 2006 lost. Poor corner-entry performance coupled with poor straight-line speed suggests a car that's difficult to drive unless the rear-wing level is excessive."
Pointedly, Willis suggested that the faults were a consequence of lacklustre management.
"Blame has been directed at the aero department and new tunnel; however the aerodynamicists, like all designers, need direction and guidance through the maze of performance trade-offs...[Honda] must start to realise that F1 isn't a place for management by committee, however well intentioned."
The Honda crisis seems to be rocking the F1 boat pretty badly, hope they can think out of the box and not end up hurting common interests or drive themselves into a corner.09/06/2007 New aero boss for Honda
Honda has hired John Owen to be its new head of aerodynamics. Owen was, until now, senior aerodynamicist at Sauber, a team he joined in 2001 after accomplishing his PhD in aerodynamics at the Imperial College of London. We don't know yet if Mariano Alperin, the current chief aerodynamicist, will remain with the Brackley based team.
27/06/2007 Aerodynamicist moves
After having hired John Owen, Honda made some additional hiring in their aerodynamic department. Francois Martinet and Peter Coysh have both been named senior aerodynamicists. The first comes from Williams, where he worked two years after being aerodynamicist at Fondmetal Technologies, and has graduated from Sup'Aero. The second comes from McLaren where he worked since 2002 and occupied the role of trackside aerodynamic engineer, he has also graduated from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology where he completed a master in aerospace engineering.