Opportunity knocking????----->Could or should Ferrari look into taking over the Honda F1 engine dept. at Milton Keynes??? The people are there. The facility is there. Not a whole lotta money to invest.
I doubt RedBull will take it over as an option.
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Opportunity knocking????----->Could or should Ferrari look into taking over the Honda F1 engine dept. at Milton Keynes??? The people are there. The facility is there. Not a whole lotta money to invest.
I doubt RedBull will take it over as an option.
It's not how start but how you finish.
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Ferrari is Ferrari and everything in or on a Ferrari is Ferrari, That's how it always was and that's how it will always be. Ferrari, from Maranello. Period.
You can run like the wind, but you'll never outrun the Prancing Horse
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Schumacher, Todt, Brawn, Byrne were not from Maranello or Italy for that matter. It order to be great, you need great minds working together.Originally Posted by Alonsomaniac
It's not how start but how you finish.
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So between Honda & Merc who gets the credit for the success Japan or Germany?
NO FERRARI NO F1
Who cares they are not FERRARI!
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Changes aren't permanent........But change is.
ALL LIVES MATTER... EVEN YOURS
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Exactly right. Maranello is where it counts. Ferrari is Italy , Enzo is Italy.
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Of which, Ferrari and Italy are not into hybridization......which is why it has taken 7 years plus to get this turbo hybrid formula right given the token system an engine freezes.
Ferrari should have never agreed to this deal....but hindsight is 20/20.
It's not how start but how you finish.
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Well, they didn't get anything right3, did they?
They found a loophole, they exploited it badly and they return to 2014, 2015 at best.
As for the chassis, apart from the novel intakes a few years back, they are nowhere...
Suspension? Ages behind Merc and TH
Tyre management? Even worse
Let's be honest. Ferrari was hit HARD from the test bans. It looks like they don't have the necessary tools for the 2020 F1, be it CFD, benches, or simulators. Other teams invested on them. Even if Ferrari introduce them todhay6, they will need years to master them.
Let's just hope that they won't repeat the 2014 engine formula mistakes in the 2026 engine rules.
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soooo, tell us how you really feel
It's not how start but how you finish.
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Angry!
Hahahaha
Honestly, I just believe that they are 10 years behind the rest...
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There was no way Ferrari could have prevented Todt from getting to be the FIA boss. The midget just followed Michael to Germany and joined Merc undercover. He's leaving town the end of this year . Maybe the FIA will chill out with regards to working so closely with Michael's former German team. I;m sure Todt had real problems with Lewis' success and the 91. Those 10 seconds and trying the 2 points was his way of showing he tried.
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To answer the original question,in a globalized enterprises world, it should not be about where a company is.
To that end, of course it does not pose an issue that Ferrari is based at Maranello.
Not to the slightest.
Attracting talents, or leaders is not about where your HQ is, not when we're talking huge organizations. It's about your structure and of course what you offer.
So , looking at the elephant in the room, what's wrong with Ferrari ?
Simple as a,b,c, it's all about the management (as it's been said oh, so many times).
When people, specially leaders, see the mess of the latest years, the "sack 'em all" mode this organization have been working under, do you really believe that money will be the only thing that will bring them on board?
No-one in their right minds will come to Ferrari if they believe that after a period of X months or 1-2 years top , they will be sacked because something will be wrong and the easy solution will be picked.
Great organizations are getting greater when a safety environment is fostered, where people learn to not be afraid the mistakes and embrace accepting the fact that mistakes will be made especially in an environment of high pressure (hint,racing in F1 is such an environment!). Is Ferrari such a place?
We all know what Ferrari means to Italy (and not just Italy). But that is a problem for MANAGEMENT to solve. The higher the level of management, the higher the responsibility of them to act as deflectors to the pressure. No-one says that people at Ferrari should not be fired or responsibility should not be laid upon those that make mistake. But that's one thing, another is that people feel unsafe.
So, create a safe place, put key people in the right posts, the rest will come.
"If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari" - Gilles Villeneuve
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