Post by ~misfit~Post by HeronPost by M2TPost by HeronPost by HalmyrePost by HeronPost by M2TPost by braPost by M2TNo doubt drawing on her extensive of racing in F1 and winning in tin tops.
https://www.motorsport.com/formula-e/news/susie-wolff-named-venturi-team-boss-1052245/
Not entirely precedent-setting.
Svetlana Strelnikova was a GP2 team manager,
Lauren Hanssen managed the Belgian GT racing team,
Leena Gade supervised two Audi Le mans wins,
But some think only Hamilton and Vettel are 'qujalified' to
lead a team, on the dubious grounds that they drive fast?
What specific expertise do you believe Susie bring to motor
racing? She's not an engineer or designer, she's never run a
business, she wasn't an outstanding driver. She does have pots
of dosh. She does some
work TV for Ch4 F1, but like the EJiot, it's probably because of
her access to some inside info.
Few, if any, F1 drivers have had any success running a team.
Michael Andretti and Roger Penske, former F1 drivers,
have had *lots* of success running multiple teams.
Successful team managers they might have been,
Might?
Post by HalmyrePenske - 2 F1 races in two years
Andretti - fired during his only (underwhelming) F1 season
Michael Andretti was a very well respected driver
and team owner who has had a *stellar* career in
"Few, if any, F1 drivers have had any success
running a team".
2 out of 800+ F1 drivers is few in any book.
Post by HeronF1 attempts to embarrass an American was successful
only to the those who don't know the whole story,
too dumb to begin to grasp the conspicuously obvious,
and lie about the truth of the matter.
Andretti is a footnote in F1.
Hardly. See above, you're one of them.
Post by M2TOne of hundreds. He had a seat in a top
ranked team
With an admittedly difficult to drive car,
with no seat time on tracks he'd never before
seen. See Senna's remarks on the matter.
Post by M2Tand it didn't work out.
It was carefully orchestrated not to work out.
Imagine *any* championship winning driver competing
against the likes of Mario and Emo not only getting
getting denied a full season, but having to take a
back seat to time in the car to an unaccomplished
test driver - Hakkinen. Then returning to Indycar
and definitely kicking Mansell's sorry ass in a new,
"Mansell's sorry ass" got onto the podium the same number of times that year
as Andretti's sorry ass.
With an established championship winning team driving
the car that his WDC father and he had developed.
Post by ~misfit~Also Mansell finished every race
See above. Oh and btw, Mansell finished 8th, Michael 4th.
Post by ~misfit~while Andretti had
6 retirements (running the same ICE).
With a new team, driving a new chassis to boot.
Post by ~misfit~I remember Andretti being rather
Verstappen-like during that year, as in 'do well or crash out' - as if he
had a lot to prove after his F1 sojourn.
He no longer had anything to prove in Indycar, to
quote Derek Daly, he was a major star there. MA's
career was never that of an MV, he didn't constantly
hit his competitors nor was he accused of doing so.
Post by ~misfit~Also it should be noted that Andretti was going back to a series and tracks
he'd raced on for a decade
Mansell was familiar with Surfers Paradise.
Post by ~misfit~(in a new car that was obviously very competitive
as the result shows)
Again, see above.
Post by ~misfit~whereas Mansell was only in his second year.
Second and last. Probably couldn't withstand the
embarrassment of getting handily beaten, first
time out, by that "failed F1 driver" driving for
a new untested team in a new untested car. :)
Post by ~misfit~Andretti
raced in CART for a total of 19 seasons for ONE championship win whereas
Mansell raced for just 2 seasons for the same number of championship
wins....
See below.
Post by ~misfit~Post by Heronuntested chassis, no less (providing Ganassi his
first win), in the first race of the season.
The previous season Mansell got into a (for him) unfamiliar car *and*
unfamiliar series on unfamiliar tracks and took the championship - something
that took Andretti 9 seasons to do
Not with that car it didn't. How many years did it
take NM to win his one and only F1 crown? Where does
he stack up with his contemporaries for F1 wins?
Post by ~misfit~(with all of the help his 'pedigree' and
contacts afforded him) and he never managed it again despite trying 10 more
times.
Nor did Mansell in F1. Just like his championship winning
Williams, he was gifted a Newman-Haas championship
car that the Andretti father and son team had developed
and won with. After the second season of that gift,
Michael finished 4th in the new Ganassi car, Mansell
finished 8th in the Newman Haas championship car,
tucked tail and left.
Post by ~misfit~Post by HeronYou
either don't know what you're talking about, or
enjoy failed, intentional attempts at deception.
It's obvious that you have feelings for Andretti. (Not that there's anything
wrong with that....)
Why are there always new charges while ignoring or
failing to address the proven to be false claims
previously made? I have respect for the truth,
irrespective of the setting.
Here's a sketch that epitomizes the truthiness spouted here recently.
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/common-knowledge/n9612