2024-01-16 05:20:16
F1 has had eight teams change their team leaders since 2022, with only Red Bull team leader Christian Horner and Toto Wolff, who is also a shareholder of the Mercedes team, remaining.
“Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack is already the fourth-longest serving team principal in F1.”
You read that right, after the shock bomb thrown by the Haas team, the Luxembourg manager, who has only been in office for just 2 years, is already the third longest-serving team leader of a single team in F1, second only to Red Bull Racing. Christian Horner[2005年至今]With Toto Wolff of Mercedes Racing Team[2013年至今]。
As you all know, F1 has had 8 teams change their team leaders since 2022. This is an unprecedented situation in the history of the F1 championship. This seems to mean that the shareholders who control F1 today seem to have begun to follow the example of ball sports. ——If shareholders or bosses are dissatisfied with performance, etc., it is equivalent to the GM or supervising team leader of a professional sports team to step down and take responsibility.
It all starts in the 2022 off-season. After the closing race, the Ferrari team confirmed that Alfa Romeo/Sauber team principal Fred Vasseur would replace Mattia Binotto, who also served as technical director. Soon after, the McLaren team announced that Andreas Seidl would switch to the Sauber team as CEO and be replaced by race supervisor Andrea Stella; the same Williams Racing also announced the dismissal of Jost Capito without warning, and announced at the annual press conference that former Mercedes Racing Team strategic director James Vowles would take over, causing changes in the leadership of four teams in one go during the off-season.
And this strong wind will become even more intense in 2023: After the spring break, the Red Bull Racing Team announced that Franz Tost, the team leader of its satellite and training team AlphaTauri, will retire and will be replaced by Laurent Mekies, the Red Bull Team Deputy Team Leader and Race Supervisor, followed by the Alpine Team before the summer vacation. high-rise earthquake[且已成為實際領導者的代理領隊Bruno Famin到現在仍未真除其職位]and the shock bomb thrown by the Haas team after the annual holiday.
This means that among the current 10 teams, only Horner and Wolff are still firmly in their positions.[Wolff甚至還是車隊股東]this kind of instability means that new investors who have joined the game in recent years require their investments to have immediate results, rather than fishing for big fish in the long term, but the results of Team Wheat, Aston Martin, Williams and other teams in 2023 have indeed shown It has had some effect – even if Aston Martin’s main change was the signing of Fernando Alonso.
Despite this, these team leaders knew when they took office that they did not have a long honeymoon period with the team’s shareholders, and they were unable to plan a long-term reconstruction plan like Capito once built for the exhausted Williams team. If this is the case, these team leaders may face the risk of stepping down at any time.
Such a change is like a “garage team” that has completely gone into history-after the Williams family sold the team in 2020, F1 has completely broken away from the model of direct management of the team by team owners at any cost. Of course, the environment of the Aston Martin team Still a bit special.
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source:grandprix.com: F1 takes the football approach to lack of results
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