I would go further.RH1300S wrote:Let's see:richard_leeds wrote:An exciting new e-magazine.... formatted in A4/letter page, wtf? A Ken Anderson production?
Edit to add:
Windsor claims that "McLaren Project 4" is evidence that McLaren took 3 attempts before getting it right. Oh dear. Project 4 wasn't founded by McLaren. It was founded by Ron Dennis and ended up buying McLaren. Projects 1 (Rondel) & 3 raced cars with success in other formulas. Project 2 was scuppered by fincanes, but even that project built a car that was raced by other.
Frank Williams - his struggles are well known, but when opportunity knocked he didn't put a foot wrong, made the right calls and got the job done.
Ron Dennis - You would hardly call his previous operations failures and when the door cracked open, he put the right pieces in the right places and has been setting standards ever since
Dave Richards - Didn't make F1 - so what! His record speaks loudly enouugh of success. I'm sure DR would say he chose NOT to do F1 because he knew it wasn't going to work for him.
KA & PW failed to spot that - in fact if you read the interview they tried to change every convention in the book rather than focus on making sure the job was done....in this case 'job done' is a half decent car sitting on the grid ready to race.
Frank Williams started up as a true private entrant, with one car for his friend, Piers Courage. He eventually morphed into a large business.
Ron Dennis, again he started as a private entrant and ok, the early efforts were not successful, but he kept plugging away until he was able to take over McLaren, another owner entrant initially
Dave Richards. He was the team principal in BAR, brought in by Pollock. He had to try and rescue a poorly performing team. He pulled out when he found that there was no hope for the team in its current state. His entry as a full team owner was stymied by FIA refusal to let him use a customer car. That is hardly failure.
KA and PW. They tried to use a sledge hammer to crack an egg. They bleat at not enough time, but yet they were claiming that 5 years of planning went into the formation of a proposed "super team". In reality, it was only a last minute idea, doomed to failure. Windsors efforts in the early stages, to try and get FIA to allow sale of an entry (all others opposed that) was ample evidence that there was little prospect of the team making it, yet they continued to bamboozle us with promises, views of near empty premises, a mock up F1 tub etc.
Any future proposed American backed F1 team will find it hard to be taken seriously. Mores the pity.