What is going on with Sebastian Vettel? Well, some have been asking the same thing about James Allison over the last year as well. It was like "he's the problem inside Ferrari" at one point. Same with Vettel. It appears Allison has now joined Mercedes as Technical Director. Let's see if Vettel will join Mercedes as well... Ferrari Chief Aerodynamicist is also gone to Williams.
besides of a few great ideas over last two years Allison and debeer pretty much sucked so dont worrie.we have the right guy in Mr r byrn as for vet he's private like micheal quite quiet until the complete car fires up
Hmm let's wait and see. For some reason people going from Ferrari to Mercedes seem to succeed especially well... And they were recruited by Ferrari because of how good they were in the first place... In the meantime, Ferrari are asking for clarification of the rules or making complaints because they just cannot figure out how others make this or that.
WHy do you think Pat Symonds left Williams late last year?
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Aldo Costa is from the Brawn era, people were let go(Luca) from Ferrari due to a "culture" change in the Scuderia. Which IMHO, was/is Ferrari's downfall. Brawn(Mercedes) then hired(2011) Costa to work for Mercedes and is responsible for the following: W04(2013), W05(2014), W06(2015), W07(2016)....they have won WCC/WDC since 2014.
Oh, one small correction: Costa isn't "from the Brawn era", he was hired in 1995 by Todt, Ross Brawn only came aboard in 1997
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Costa was hired from Minardi to Ferrari in 1996 and fired July 20th 2011. Ross Brawn worked for Ferrari from 1997-2006....so that makes it the "Brawn Era"...I never said Brawn hired him. Jean Todt worked for Ferrari as general manager from 1994-2007. And yet we see this time and time again with the Scuderia...people being let go after a disastrous decade(since 2007) only to be hired by someone else.....more notably Mercedes...and just recently Allison. Ferrari has to deal with its own internal issues before it can deal with its external issues.
So you meant he was from the "Brawn era", because they worked together? That's fine by me. Anyway, that was just a small nitpick.
As for his work at Mercedes, seeing how many top engineers work there (one, if not the, main reasons for their success, I reckon), who's to say for sure Costa's real part in all those WDC and WCC wins? I still mantain Ferrari aren't to blame for sacking him when they did
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After Costa, Ferrari hired and then sacked Pat Fry, and Tombazis left with him too. Seeing that their work accomplished nothing, again can we blame Ferrari for giving them the boot? Allison was a different matter: he wanted to go back to England to be with his family... and Ferrari weren't exactly happy with his work, too
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All I was trying to say is that's a common practice in pretty much every sport to fire the guy in charge when things go south: in football/soccer, for instance, when a team loses, who gets the boot, the players... or the coach?
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I think getting rid of Costa was a bad idea. I thought he was pretty good with aero, just couldn't get to grips with EBD.. I think that's why he's doing so well at Mercedes now. No EBD's and just good solid aero design. Pat Fry was a waste and even Allison didn't live up to his hype although he wasn't here long enough to make too much of an impact.
[QUOTE=Silent Bob;927257]I think getting rid of Costa was a bad idea. I thought he was pretty good with aero, just couldn't get to grips with EBD.. I think that's why he's doing so well at Mercedes now. No EBD's and just good solid aero design. Pat Fry was a waste and even Allison didn't live up to his hype although he wasn't here long enough to make too much of an impact.[/QUOTE]
Agree with this on Costa....
can't blame him(Allison) for leaving due to the death of his wife and taking care of his children IMHO....I and probably most would have done the same thing. As far as living up the the hype, maybe just like Costa, lets see how he does with Mercedes....no EBD's(emotional & behavior difficulties??) and just solid aero design.
I believe that Ferrari would have sacked Allison at the end of last season anyway. The backlash in the italian media was huge all year, he wouldn't have resisted
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IMHO departure of Mr Allison was not necessarily because of the unfortunate passing of his wife and taking care of his children which were reported to be adults.
It was reported in the media last summer that he did not agree with car development direction and time schedule set by Mr Marchionne. Perhaps use of the family tragedy was just convenient for both parties, who knows.
Aldo Costa is the engineering director of Mercedes who have obviously dominated James Allison was fully responsible for last years Ferrari look how good that car was.
Yeah, but that happened after Aldo Costa was already gone...
You see things like this happen whether this one is true or not. Just because you seem to be in control of certain things doesn't make you the one responsible making those decisions.
Yeah, but that happened after Aldo Costa was already gone...
I believe he(Scuderia1967) was making a point about the "coach" being fired as it relates to post #380.
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