[Jeff Higgins]

Yes - having been an engineer my entire ostensibly "adult" life (but I'm retired, and recovering...), I can say that give any qualified engineer an engineering problem within their area of expertise, and they will "solve" it. Give the same problem to an engineer with notable experience with similar problems, and they will solve it much more efficiently, much more eloquently, much more effectively, and for far less money. Given that the margins are so, so slim in this sport (measured in tenths of a second over 1:30 laps), experience is the deciding factor in addition to a "savant" level of insight. You mostly cannot buy that (although I heard Ferrari made Adrian Newey and Christian Horner offers), and that depth of talent in F1 is paper thin. Andretti/GM will not find it at NASA, nor anywhere else without specific experience in F1. Putting an object in orbit is probably relatively easier than winning in F1... more people know how to do that...