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Originally Posted by Tourer
Actually, being a bit less flippant, it does seem to me that if Adam Parr is allegedly by his own admission not a racer, then who within WGPE is the steely eyed racer driving the team?
Always used to be Sir Frank combined with Patrick of course but are they both still that hands on?
Given that the team has always been about that hard nosed, racing mentality maybe that is what is lacking there right now - maybe the team in general has lost some of its mojo. If the reports linked above on Adam Parr and his lack of popularity in the team are correct, you could imagine the long time staff used to a hard edged, focussed racer mentality struggling to fit with Parr and vice versa.
Could be that what they really need is a hard nosed, focussed, no-bullsh, straight talker to really drive the racing part of the business whilst Parr looks after everything else.
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You have got it nailed here!
A GP team can only do one thing if it is to maintain its focus and that is race. The first thing John Barnard did when he arrived at Ferrari was can the CART program to prevent the resources and focus being split.
Best they put in Marbot's call to Flav!
Whatever his short commings, he is a 100% steely eyed racer with few equals!