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Here is a piece about Seidl.
"It takes the water of Germany so that nobody gets sick drinking the one of the country in which we are". It is only a small detail that defines the personality of Andreas Seidl, the new head of McLaren - and, therefore, of Carlos Sainz - since May 1st. A main team obsessed by detail and demanding to the fullest, who does not marry anyone and does not shake his legs when making drastic decisions, but at the same time fun and close with the staff that is in charge. And his recipe works, since in the four years he led the Porsche endurance program he won three World Cups and three 24 Hours of Le Mans, also managing a multi-million dollar budget, without much to envy the McLaren. Previously he was an engine engineer at BMW Sauber F1 and head of track operations for the German team.Those who have worked with him define it as "míster perfection". It does not admit errors, especially those that go beyond the level of 'human error': " We engineers bought us three laptops: one to work, a second that had to be always synchronized in case the main one broke and a third one was reserved If you did not have the two computers always updated, I would throw you out " , tells MARCA Roberto Gómez , who was his engineer during his entire Porsche period.However, his former employees keep a great memory of Seidl: "He's the best boss I've ever had, because he was just as demanding of himself as he asked of you and that motivated you." When you failed, he gave you a full talk. arguments, taking out the numbers, but without raising your voice, and you left the meeting to dust, knowing that you had failed. "That does not raise the voice does not mean that it does not have a strong hand. At Porsche, he did not hesitate to 'go down' from the LMP1 program to the GT one to riders with a lot of influence on the brand, despite the fact that he came from BMW, and even punished Neel Jani, the best one, without shooting in the qualifying sessions. return of the whole team, for not obeying team orders in a race.Not only is he uncompromising with the errors of the pilots, but also with those of the rest of the personnel: "The engineers, for example, prohibited us from riding a bike fifteen days before Le Mans so that we would not be injured, " recalls Gómez. "He controlled everything: if there were three days of testing, he rented the circuit for two more days just in case ... and he had the flights watched, he was the only one in the team that had a team shirt and trousers in his backpack. If you lost your suitcase ... I wanted to have solutions for everything that could happen. "Andre Lotterer , a former Porsche driver, shared only one year with Seidl but he also left a mark: "He was an obsessive uncle with the preparation, he talks to you in a very direct way, he does not care about politics, he did not leave anything to chance, but I enjoyed working with him, he supported his pilots a lot and he is a fun character, he liked to organize dinners to make pineapples ", tells MARCA.Oh And his relationship with Fernando Alonso is very good. In fact, was the main supporter to incorporate the Spaniard to Porsche facing Le Mans 2015 in an agreement that failed at the last minute but was very, very close to materialize
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I think Alonso is great and I would have loved him in the car this year. Let's be honest, he's quicker than Norris and Sainz.
