Hard to spot trends in 2018 F1 form – Wolff

10 comments on “Hard to spot trends in 2018 F1 form – Wolff”

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   geargrinder
   17th June 2018, 0:47

   A McLaren won Indy in 1972 with Mark Donahue driving a Penske team car. They followed that in 1974 with a McLaren team win with Johnny Rutherford driving. So they have already matched Mercedes!
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      Fer no.65 (@fer-no65)
      17th June 2018, 1:11

      I was about to say that, they already did it. Not as an official team, but as a constructor.
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      Calum Menzies
      17th June 2018, 19:23

      That’s really interesting. I didn’t know about that Penske McLaren.

      I’m off to read up about that!
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   Phylyp (@phylyp)
   17th June 2018, 4:34

   That article about the McLaren ‘revolt’ is interesting. Upon a superficial reading, it does feel like Whitmarsh is trying to drum up support to return him to the team. I don’t know much about the detailed politics of McLaren, but I’m surprised to know that Mansour Ojjeh is a close friend of Whitmarsh, yet was unable to retain him when Ron took over. I presume a lot of the mechanics and people on the factory floor have served with McLaren for years, if not decades, so their frustration is understandable.
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      Todd (@braketurnaccelerate)
      17th June 2018, 6:09

      @phylyp – Look at Whitmarsh’s time at McLaren and compare it to Boullier & Brown’s tenures. The employees of McLaren loved Whitmarsh. One of the criticisms of Martin was that he was too friendly with the staff. It makes sense why they’d want him back.

      I think McLaren is a pressure cooker that’s deformed and leaking, and it’s about to explode at any moment. Unfortunately it seems like Eric Boullier is lost. During his time at Enstone/Lotus, he did a really poor job of people managing, especially during the end when people weren’t getting paid. He was also very bad at playing the blame game.

      McLaren desperately needs a leader with clear focus, hubris and the people skills to motivate people to want to work.
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         Phylyp (@phylyp)
         17th June 2018, 6:24

         a leader with clear focus, hubris and the people skills

         @braketurnaccelerate – so, basically the love child of Ron and Whitmarsh 😃.

         Humour apart, the impression I got of Whitmarsh were that he was quite a gentleman (e.g. not preventing Merc from supplying the Brawn team with engines), but don’t have any opinion on him as a TP (although I’ve seen criticisms of him, and that he started McLaren’s decline).
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      Stephen Crowsen (@drycrust)
      17th June 2018, 18:47

      I don’t think Zak Brown would support the return to McLaren of a person who previously did his job simply because they might want to take over his job.
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   Jere (@jerejj)
   17th June 2018, 7:36

   I wish Whitmarsh were back.
   – That height difference, though.
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   John H (@john-h)
   17th June 2018, 10:19

   Whitmarsh Quest
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   BMF66
   20th June 2018, 18:24

   This journalist really digs up the real crap doesn’t she. (Re Whitmarsh article)

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