That is a high rake problem
When the Italian news sports report opens with "Disastro Ferrari, Maranello Problema" with multiple replays of Ferraris crashing into each other, and no mention of the actual winner of the race, one can appreciate the extent of the problem of Italian media pressure.AngelicPrincess wrote: ↑12 Jul 2020, 08:56Whenever Ferrari has a bad season the Italian media and the fans call for whoever is at the top to be fired.
lold out literally on this
Short a couple of drivers, but they will make do
It’s more the press. And they need to sell papers (or clicks), so the story that connects with the (angry) fans sells the best, not always the most true story..alexx_88 wrote: ↑13 Jul 2020, 07:36Do you think fans have so much power over Ferrari's decisions? Wondering because as a football fan, where fans can chant and say things during the match, in F1 that's not possible. More so, the Ferrari fans that used to go to races are different each time, it's not the same significant ghetou group that travels around the world. So that leaves us with the online component. Is a multibillion dollar publicly traded company going to fire and hire people based on YouTube's comments section? I doubt it.
Yeah, I don't think that would've turned out too well.
Maybe Ferrari should install a dummy, or straw man as the public face and do the actual business a level below that.alexx_88 wrote: ↑13 Jul 2020, 12:01Yeah, I don't think that would've turned out too well.
The problem is that some people come with a football-like mentality, where you have pretty much 12-20 people responsible for the results. F1 is so much more about the hierarchy, how you divide responsibilities, how much creative freedom you offer to the engineers and, more importantly, how you handle things not going according to plan. The worst thing you can do is blame the engineers and fire the ones that make mistakes. The only thing that achieves is everyone locking down all their creativity and not taking chances.
I really thought that was Matiaci's role, the fall guy, come in clean house and then slip out the back door. Ferrari should definitely consider something like you proposed, a front face that can be a fall guy that has nothing to do with the actual workings of the team.Big Tea wrote: ↑13 Jul 2020, 12:09Maybe Ferrari should install a dummy, or straw man as the public face and do the actual business a level below that.alexx_88 wrote: ↑13 Jul 2020, 12:01Yeah, I don't think that would've turned out too well.
The problem is that some people come with a football-like mentality, where you have pretty much 12-20 people responsible for the results. F1 is so much more about the hierarchy, how you divide responsibilities, how much creative freedom you offer to the engineers and, more importantly, how you handle things not going according to plan. The worst thing you can do is blame the engineers and fire the ones that make mistakes. The only thing that achieves is everyone locking down all their creativity and not taking chances.
A pr or 'face' could be changed every year, or even twice a year without upsetting the apple cart and let the actual team at least have continuity.