Vanja #66 wrote: ↑25 May 2024, 18:15
Stroll Sr and his impatience is more than likely the biggest issue for the team. We've seen it with Ferrari and McLaren in the last 15 years, you can't skip steps, progress has to be built from the ground up. Updates not working as intended feel rushed and insufficiently worked on, as if there's pressure to bring new parts asap every weekend. That's not the way you win titles in F1
While the pressure from Stroll is real, I dont think they have rushed any updates. They have been in line with other teams and even last year, the first big change wasnt until Canada. I have been paying attention to and been concerned by the statements put out by their technical staff since last year ever since Fallows was cribbing about the strictness of the rules. That was an immediate red flag for me. Their whole demeanor suggests they dont have a coherent concept that they can improve upon.
Compared to Mclaren who started at the back of the grid last year. They confidently stated they knew what was wrong, what changes needed to be done and the timeline they would do them in. They were bang on with their timeline and the updates immediately worked on a sprint weekend. AM in contrast have made excuses with sprint weekends, tires being changed by Pirelli, tracks no suiting their car. I remember at the end of last season, they were saying how 2024 will be the first car their 'new' technical department would have bult from scratch. Now they're worse. Honestly it all sounds like job preservation tactics.