Everything other than.. Something Else, Whitless and 2007 Could have added Sam Michael? He seems to have the reverse Midus touch?
Surprised that people have suggested that it is Jb's fault given that the car Is fundamentally **** and apart from Bahrain has exceeded all expectations?
The reason I put JB up is because he is the #1 driver so the car is build around him. The points I put up above were points me and freind thought of as the reason but I was interested to see what you guys think.
I don't think anyone is picking on Jenson specifically, I think it's more of a case of everyone having to take their share of responsibility; and I'd include Sam Michael and Ron Dennis in that too.
A lot of people were talking about the car being made for Jenson this year and therefore not a compromise between his and Hamilton's driving styles. SO is it McLaren designers for getting it wrong, or simply Jenson's driving style is not suited to the tyres in F1 now, so double disadvantage?
Their design philosophy needs to be scrapped. Now that Lowe has left you would suspect Tim Goss will design the next 3 cars at least. They need consistency in this department, they seem to be struggling this year because of Paddy Lowe's departure. Had he still been involved with the team I think they would have at least made a little more progress.
I think given that the car is radically different to the previous car and that it was very late when it was confirmed that Lewis was leaving, I would imagine driver input was limited. The fundamental flaws in the car remind me off 2009 when Lewis was at the back of the field (notably Silverstone), the driver is ultimately restricted by the car and I would imagine that they have no input actuall design, maybe driver presence at most? I would apply the same logic to the thought process that things would/could be different if Lewis was driving the car, evident by his performance on Sunday which was limited to the car and its behaviour.
do you know that 2009 was brilliant even though Hamilton and Alonso (at Renault) were in shockingly bad cars, they still put on a great performance racing each other. Nobody was watching the leaders and the expectation was on Brawn GP who had their first race as not the best team on the grid.
So I voted loss of Pady Lowe, Teams direction, Button as number 1 and Martin Whitmarsh But overall the biggest reason for me and the one that has led to the others, MARTIN WHITMARSH
The reason is the direction, for which part of the blame should fall on Whitmarsh as the leader of McLaren. I don't belive it is anything to do with Lowe, Hamilton or Button. Simply because Lowe left very late in development and Hamilton and Button are only drivers. The idea that centering the car around Buttons needs could have caused some of the problems is interesting, but every analysis i've seen has pointed to Aero problems and poor wind tunnel correlation which would not have had a lot of input from him. The majority of the big design decisions and the philosophy chosen would have been from before Lewis left, so it's more tuned to Button rather than built for him alone. I also don't think Lewis would have been doing any better driving it, though since the only way to get good points in it is to tyre save we would probably have a few more "i can't go any slower" messages. The loss of Mercedes backing could have had an effect, i'll start to believe that if they fail to recover, for now the blame needs to be put on the fact they decided to scrap the best car on the grid for reasons that science can not explain.
