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Quick Note: I wanted to post about this when the news broke about Ross Brawn being replaced by Paddy Lowe, However I never got around to it, life is just a little more than me and my keyboard and my silly opinions. Instead it looks like I will be saving this post for sometime in May/June of 2014. -jp- From GrandPrix 247 Departing Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn, working his… Read More
I really wanted the title of this post to be the above photo caption, but that just seemed too long. Now lets dive into what will undoubtedly be a hot topic again in the wake of the Canadian GP: Mercedes, Pirelli and the “private” test. This was bound to happen at the first good result by Mercedes and that it has happened at the following Grand Prix after the news broke in… Read More
All this talk of team orders has got me thinking about another issue and that is the issue of having #1 and #2 drivers within a team. Not because of the Vettel and Webber affair from the Malaysian GP; clearly Sebastian Vettel is Red Bull’s #1, just as Fernando Alonso is Ferrari’s #1. No, this is in response to the problem with the Mercedes boys. While Red Bull politics were causing all… Read More
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