[Captain Ahab Jr]

Glen is 100% right, it's not formula fun it's F1

The team in question I believe are busy investing in the business and don't now have to choose a paid driver but they've been suffering from brain drain on the technical side for quite a while now

Usually the more motivated, more experienced, more capable, more ambitious and more brave individuals have already left, leaving or thinking about leaving. They are exactly the people the team needs the most

The lack of external signals showing the team has real ambition and the budget to match their ambition isn't a good advert for attracting the experience people they so desperately need

New graduates and the less experienced will join and if nothing changes most will move on.

In F1 the pace of technical development/progress moves at a relentless pace, a team can be left behind in no time and the team has been left behind for countless years. Catch up on their own merit won't happen next year or the year after, more like a 5yr timesspan at the minimum

Just my humble opinion on what I find to be a sad prediciment for one of the most successful teams in F1