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Kolles blames Stroll: The fish stinks from the head: https://www.planetf1.com/news/colin-kolles-lawrence-stroll-blames/

"... Kolles, who was with the team for several seasons until 2009, puts the blame entirely on team owner Stroll and his management style.

“It won’t work anymore,” Kolles told SPORT1.

“You have a team owner who thinks he is the team boss, who knows everything better and thinks he should put his son up front with all his might.

“For me, that is the completely wrong approach.

“The fish always stinks from the head. I can see the racing team going nowhere.

“As long as Mr. Whitmarsh is in charge and Mr. Stroll doesn’t see that he should be staying at home and only giving budgetary guidelines and letting people work who know their stuff and get the right people to lead the team, it will never work in life.”

Former Aston Martin team boss Otmar Szafnauer left the team in January this year, citing Stroll’s micromanagement as one of the reasons for his departure.

Kolles believes Stroll is wanting success to fast, and that is something that takes time.

“If someone thinks they’ll get into Formula 1 and be in the front ranks overnight, then it won’t work that quickly,” he said.

“You have to have a plan. You could have had the plan that new rules would come in 2022 and work on them. However, Mr. Stroll decided a few years ago that it should now be done quickly, no matter what the cost.”

Money is one thing Stroll has, the Canadian investing heavily in the team including a new factory and wind tunnel.

“There have been many investors who have tried to tell me that they know how business works,” Kolles continued. “Then I said that may be, but I think Formula 1 is a bit different.

“I used to tell them if you take a million of any currency and throw it on a fire, the money will burn up just as quickly as in Formula 1 if you don’t know what you’re doing.

“And that is the case that is happening at Aston Martin.”

So much so that he reckons Vettel doesn’t really want to race for the team.

The German missed the opening two races of the season with Covid but the Romanian seems to wonder if there is not more behind his absence.

“I don’t think he wants to drive at all,” he said. “He just doesn’t want to do that to himself. ..."


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Kolles blames Stroll: The fish stinks from the head: https://www.planetf1.com/news/colin-kolles-lawrence-stroll-blames/

"... Kolles, who was with the team for several seasons until 2009, puts the blame entirely on team owner Stroll and his management style.

“It won’t work anymore,” Kolles told SPORT1.

“You have a team owner who thinks he is the team boss, who knows everything better and thinks he should put his son up front with all his might.

“For me, that is the completely wrong approach.

“The fish always stinks from the head. I can see the racing team going nowhere.

“As long as Mr. Whitmarsh is in charge and Mr. Stroll doesn’t see that he should be staying at home and only giving budgetary guidelines and letting people work who know their stuff and get the right people to lead the team, it will never work in life.”

Former Aston Martin team boss Otmar Szafnauer left the team in January this year, citing Stroll’s micromanagement as one of the reasons for his departure.

Kolles believes Stroll is wanting success to fast, and that is something that takes time.

“If someone thinks they’ll get into Formula 1 and be in the front ranks overnight, then it won’t work that quickly,” he said.

“You have to have a plan. You could have had the plan that new rules would come in 2022 and work on them. However, Mr. Stroll decided a few years ago that it should now be done quickly, no matter what the cost.”

Money is one thing Stroll has, the Canadian investing heavily in the team including a new factory and wind tunnel.

“There have been many investors who have tried to tell me that they know how business works,” Kolles continued. “Then I said that may be, but I think Formula 1 is a bit different.

“I used to tell them if you take a million of any currency and throw it on a fire, the money will burn up just as quickly as in Formula 1 if you don’t know what you’re doing.

“And that is the case that is happening at Aston Martin.”

So much so that he reckons Vettel doesn’t really want to race for the team.

The German missed the opening two races of the season with Covid but the Romanian seems to wonder if there is not more behind his absence.

“I don’t think he wants to drive at all,” he said. “He just doesn’t want to do that to himself. ..."


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Yeah, but where would he then go? Personally I was hoping Merc would sign him up for a 1 or 2-year deal if Hamilton decided not to race anymore. Have a German race for a German team.

But there aren't any other gaps opening up, and McLaren isn't the team you want to go too. Unless a driver is out of contract for 2023 and we don't know about it?
 
Mercedes: New rear wing for Melbourne: https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de...p-saudi-arabien-motorleistung-luftwiderstand/

"... Mercedes left Jeddah realizing they were no closer to Ferrari and Red Bull. And that you're still stuck deep in the bouncing trap. Not all of the recipes that helped reduce rocking in Bahrain also worked in Jeddah. An engineer admitted: "We assumed that there would be less shaking at Jeddah because the track is smoother. We were wrong. We still don't fully understand what factors trigger the phenomenon. It's an ongoing learning process ."

Reaching for a rear wing, which produces less downforce than Bahrain's, didn't bring any improvement either. Just a better balance. So in the end they resorted to the old home remedy that always helps: the vehicle height was raised. But that robs the Silver Arrows of their speed. And it makes the search for the best overall setup a razor's edge. George Russell got it, Lewis Hamilton didn't. "The differences in tuning were minimal," admitted the engineers. ...

According to the engineers, the weak point of top speed has more to do with air resistance.

That surprises the layman. How can a car that ran in Jeddah with the smallest rear wing and almost no sidepods put so much frontal area into the wind? An engineer clarifies: "Don't look at the surface of the car and the rear wing flap. This is misleading. Drag is mainly generated by the skin of the rear wing and the lower wing in the rear. And we're way up there." On this point, Mercedes will already react in Melbourne. A new rear wing is in the production loop.

Until the Australian GP, the engineers will sift through all the data again and feed them into their simulations to find a pattern for solving the bouncing problem. Time is of the essence. "Every week you go in circles with a problem, the rest of development stops." Toto Wolff is too optimistic: "You can't make up for the deficit we have until the next race. We have to work forward and protect backwards and must not fall into the trap of making predictions today about where we will be in the summer." ..."
 
Joy..... another street race

Calling it now, Las Vegas will be the most cringe race on the calender of all, super americanized and celeb ridden

Can see the death of the conventional track creeping closer, its just too "icky" for liberty medias superstar image.
 
Proposed circuit layout

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