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Quote:Claire
“I think we’re starting to see the results of some of that work that
we’ve done but it is a journey for us, this is going to take us a long
time to get ourselves back into the midfield and I suppose we just keep
asking for patience and for people not to expect that suddenly the light
switch will come on and we will suddenly find ourselves back fighting
for P4 and P5, particularly when you look at the competition out there
at the moment.
Quote:And in Lowe's case, I wouldn't exclude that he is the main culprit of his own career ending disaster at Williams.
Quote:Coughlan and Symonds both were involved in major scandals before being hired by Williams - and that was the main reason they were hired by Williams and not by other teams.
Quote:It could be there were problems with the tunnel of course. But I would take declarations with a pinch of salt - Lowe himself said that correlation was very good back in 2017. We will never know for sure, but my impression is that Lowe just never managed to fully control and coordinate the technical team - if this is due to his own fault, by the team resisting his ideas or a combination of both it is impossible to tell from the outside. But when a team using the same engine for the 5th consecutive year makes mistakes on the cooling system (as happened in 2018) I think it can only be due to lack of coordination - Lowe’s main task.GunkQuote:And in Lowe's case, I wouldn't exclude that he is the main culprit of his own career ending disaster at Williams.
Who knows. Almost everything I read suggests there were big problems with the tunnel before the Lowe/De Beer project - both Wurz and Symonds can testify to this . . . and it continued because the Coughlan low downforce project didn't really trouble it. If you were following the job vacancies, almost the entire tunnel team was replaced.
Quote:Coughlan and Symonds both were involved in major scandals before being hired by Williams - and that was the main reason they were hired by Williams and not by other teams.
That hardly means they weren't excellent at their jobs, with many years in championship winning teams. Good people last 5 minutes at Williams because the management sucks.
Quote:As for Coughlan and Symonds . . . My point is that their careers were over well before they joined Williams.
Quote:Gunk
Who knows. Almost everything I read suggests there were big problems with the tunnel before the Lowe/De Beer project - both Wurz and Symonds can testify to this . . . and it continued because the Coughlan low downforce project didn't really trouble it. If you were following the job vacancies, almost the entire tunnel team was replaced.
Quote:Not really, they've never finished 11th or 12th even though we used to have more than 10 teams on the grid.j-s
Interesting fact: Williams have finished in every position EXCEPT FIRST since Newey left.
Quote:CLOVERLEAF 888
I disagree that Neweys impact is exaggerated. I think he knows his game and more importantly he knows the processes to put in place and has moved with modern times.... I think Williams would never have got in the mess it did if we had him today . I actually feel we haven't designed a car with excellent aero in terms of not only drag but downforce levels for years now.. Im going back as far as even Bmw days and maybe before, where I don't think the cars were ever that great in aero.... engine power advantages or rule changes advantages are the only time we have done anything only to find the pack catches up... I think aero is the one main area where Williams have never excelled and has been a major problem for us for years and years.. Our cars always seem flawed in their concepts
Quote:AlanJones
Even Newey once designed his first car and Newey also has had his fair share of lemons produced.
It's all about finding the next Newey. Not about reminiscing what once was.