So we have Vasseur who founded and won F2/F3 and other titles with one of the best junior teams (ART Grand Prix) in the last 2-3 decades, stepping up to F1 with Renault and leaving as soon as he realised it's not going to be a success story.
Moves to Sauber/Alfa Romeo, brings up from the bottom of the grid to a strong midfield status in 2022 (once Ferrari PU was up to the job after a few years) - leaves them for Ferrari, team turns into an immediate backmarker.
Persuades Elkann and Ferrari board they need fresh knowledge from non-italian engineers (which never happened since Brawn left the team), successfully brings several very prominent people to the team, including the most successful ever driver. Allows Cardille to take over as TD with very little experience in previous role, effectivelly promotes him to AMR CTO by trusting him to reinvent SF23 and continue that way with early SF24 and show how quickly he can cut a big chunk of the gap down.
And now this TP with massive experience in all aspects of F1, who committed to building an international Ferrari F1 team back to glory and has full support of Elkann as Ferrari Chairman - would throw away a chance to sign up Newey just because he doesn't want to lose some of his decision making powers? Seriously?
And, of course, neither McLaren, Mercedes nor Williams turned him down because he asked too much, they all had their own totally logical reasons
FDD wrote: ↑12 Aug 2024, 12:27
Clear, was joking
Yup, I just wanted to make a few more points