Posted 24 July 2024 - 07:28
În retrospect, looks like Seidl's job at McLaren was somewhat similar în targets as Rossi's at Renault - limited time job, take a ruderless team and put în place the basics for growth. Granted, Seidl did a better job than Rossi în that aspect; the trouble is he did not replicate it at Sauber - who, I'm sorry to say, sank like a stone recently.
Binotto, for all his management faults, is a brilliant engineer, we usually forget that. Put him in the right position, give him a team principal to alleviate the non-productive burdens and handle the politics (Krack seems indeed more adapt to that) and he'll happily trundle around the factory-with good results too, I expect. Not to mention he seems bent on a hiring spree from Ferrari-which, again, does NOT have the worst engineers on Earth, despite all the perennial criticism.