Then why isn't Ferrari more successful and why did Toyota flop?

Not sure I agree. I have participated in many teams that full funding and still couldn't figure it out. Leadership is key and the commitment to the team dynamic. Sounds like Toto has developed a team that is fully integrated and committed. Money provides a platform but does not indicate success. Look at Ferrari. They have the funds and can't get out of their own way

In my opinion Toyota tried to do everything the Toyota way and were too stubborn to listen . Add to that they had the wrong Schumacher behind the wheel , Rolf never could provide feedback to the engineers like his brother .

Modern day Ferrari have moments of brilliance but not by design it's probably luck . Their pit/race strategy is pathetic but it is the red prancing horse way :D

Yup, so contrary to stealthn's, opinion, it takes more than cubic megabucks to attain success in F1. It's very important, no doubt, but not the only factor.

Wouldn't agree it's 100%, maybe more like 50/50

Not worked at Mercedes but worked with and know lots of people there, not heard of anyone being sacked for making a mistake. Have worked at Ferrari and saw quite few people made an example of. Hopefully Binotto will drive this culture out of the team as for me the blame culture is one of the main differences between Mercedes and Ferrari. The other main difference is Maranello is isolated from the majority of the F1 talent gene pool so not the same influx of fresh ideas/working methods coming in to the team

Sorry, bit slow on answering your previous post,

Racing Point will have made a lot of teams sit up and take notice. They won't have done anything illegal, just used the same approach as Haas and Ferrari

It's not hard to copy a competitors car, plenty of 'spy' photos to scale from and turn into 3D shapes.

Racing Point's car is tested in one of Mercedes's wind tunnels so I'm sure they will have received some good advice ;) on which route to take while developing their own aero package

Toto and Stroll are best 'investment' buddies so it makes for a good partnership

Renault now need to do something similar with McLaren otherwise they risk being left behind in the development war between the manufacturers

All good points guys

Culture is the one thing you can't buy your way out of unless it's the head of ops or someone you can replace (money), but ingrained culture and holier than thou attitudes from the company and chiefs down can and does ruin a team (Ferrari example is a good one)

Bahrain to be run with no fans?!

https://www.yahoo.com/autos/f1-bahrain-gp-run-behind-081101166.html

I suspect at one level teams will be happy not to deal with the masses. More open schedule and less intrusion.

Podium ceremony will be a weird one.

That’s a pretty radical move, but I applaud it. Sure it screws the 100k people who might have gone (but probably wouldn’t given the circumstances) but it allows the show to go on for the rest of the world holed up in their house.

Modena is one of the quarantined provinces, but Scuderia Ferrari is allowed to leave. WTF!

I’m assuming Pirelli has to get a wavier as well.


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found this clip on utube. Vettel gone from Ferrari? Hass gone after 2020?

Twitter reports emerging about Albert Park hotel having cases of COVID19, and 3x F1 personnel feeling sick and in self-imposed quarantine (one from McLaren plus two from Haas - hopefully Grosjean's tire changers ;-)... I hope they race anyway and don't cancel at the last minute - spectators or not... An F1 race would cheer me up and they're already there anyway... The rest of the quarter looks bleak...
Australia just banned all italians coming in, but everyone is already there...

Hoping for a resurgence of Renault this year just because Helmut Marko gave them so much crap... (and Ricciardo and Ocon are decent guys, and the new engine seems bulletproof)

4 more days until the start of 2019 ver. 2.0
And I can't wait.

McLaren has withdrawn from Melbourne. A crew member was diagnosed positive with the virus.

Does that mean the whole show is off? "If one team can't participate, then no one will..."

Or does the show go on, because the intent of that proclamation last week was aimed towards travel restrictions, and McLaren was able to transport the team to Australia--but they withdrew once they had already arrived?

Lewis thinks it's silly that the race will go on. Verstappen says it's perfectly safe and reasonable to go on.

It's toast... Not because McLaren withdrew but because they're sending the signal that's the right thing to do, and political pressure will only increase.... $%$#%, that season starting was my one ray of sunshine in an otherwise ****ty year so far... $$#%, $%$#%, $%$#% !!!

WEC pulled out of Sebring and there is no GA for the Indycar St Petersburg race.

F1 race now postponed.

Argh... predictable.. All because some schmuck ate a bat who F$%$ed a pangolin or something...
Probably good news for Ferrari and the teams who were not looking great in spain..

Source? There is no such news on Formula1.com.

In other series news, Sebring 12 Hour postponed to November. WEC had pulled out.

Indycar running per schedule on Sunday.

https://www.planetf1.com/news/australian-gp-set-to-go-ahead/

Of course the BBC wants it postponed so McLaren isn't left out.

That was inevitable, Bahrain will be next, then Vietnam, China is off, will be a while before the 1st race

Glad I'm not travelling with the race team!

What's inevitable? There has not been an official announcement, at least not on Formula1.com

The teams voted not to race. It's not official per FIA yet but it's done... %$#%$ - that was gonna be the one silver lining of this year...

Hass, McLaren and Williams team members were in isolation

A McLaren mechanic and performance engineer have both been diagnosed as positive

McLaren withdrew from the race, the FIA responded with we will fine you! McLaren now busy trying to work out how to get everyone home

Rumour is Alpha Tauri and Ferrari have staff with symptoms

Just read elsewhere the team principles just finished a meeting and the majority of teams aren't prepared to go ahead with the race

St Pete GP will happen behind closed gates.... And WRC goes ahead in mexico. We got open wheels and sliding this w/e after all !

OK, Captain, thanks for the background information.

No problem, really hope I'm wrong!

http://m.f1reader.com/news/australian-gp-organisers-pushing-on-with-f1-race-plans-243962

Australian F1 cancelled.

Today's word is 'Inevitable' brought to you by your Muppet Mole on F1 Street :D

We might have to wait for a race but it's going to be a very interesting championship this year

Big fight between RBR and Ferrari to who finishes after Mercedes, maybe RBR may even give Mercedes a run for the constructors championship

The biggest fight will be best of the rest, McLaren, Force Point, Renault, Alpha Tauri ???

Last fight will be best of the loser's, Alfa Romeo, William of Hass??

Dammit, now I have to cancel all them racing shows I was gonna record this weekend.
What am I gonna do with all that MT space? It's the end of times I tell ya.
Fire and brimstone.

There goes a nice, relaxing weekend of racing.

Indycar is still running at St. Petersburg and there is an infinite amount of racing on Youtube, Vimeo, an Netflix.

OK, thanks. Guess I can come in off the ledge now ;)

Time to creep back out, Indycar events through April are cancelled, so St. Pete through COTA.

Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg - Updated Statement from INDYCAR

If you are starved for racing content, I did a search on youtube for "movie shorts"
there is a ton of entertaining youtube content out there

One that popped up when I further refined it with "Movie short car"
was Hurely haywoods last race with Brumos.

St Pete canceled. As are the next three races. IndyCar closed until May.

https://www.planetf1.com/news/pirelli-scrap-1800-tyres/ :eek:

I was just watching some of this morning's Australian race on TSN, looks like it might have the same results as last year