@techndly Political mastermind and he started a smear campaign against Fred and Charles, had to make statements that he didn't want engineers on the pit wall fired and when upper management released the statement backing Fred, he went against them too. It's been loss after loss after loss.
Fred on the race and the start:
“I’m struggling to swallow it because, honestly, I think it’s a lack of respect. A lack of respect for the brand, a lack of respect for everyone working here and for all the efforts we make. We’ve made a real step forward in terms of performance, and I think throwing away a victory like that is difficult to accept. Now, I haven’t spoken to them yet. We’ll have time to sit down and talk face to face, but right now, I’m really struggling to get over it.
Q: So, from what we understand, Charles Leclerc is the one being targeted here tonight?
Fred: “No, no, I haven't singled anyone out. I want to talk to them. I think Lewis also went wide, but I believe we also need to keep in mind that we represent a brand, we represent sponsors, and we have 2,000 people working behind us. They're not racing just for themselves, they're racing for all those people.
We'll sit down tonight or tomorrow morning to discuss it and clarify everything, and then we'll immediately turn our attention to São Paulo. I think having another race next week is the best thing that could happen to us.”
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@techndly haven't managed to fix that issue. The pit wall is frozen in terror and are just unable to execute the simplest of strategies because on Monday some might be calling for them to be fired.
@techndly Charles improves despite Ferrari because Instead of good cars that make him work on his strengths and weaknesses they constantly deliver cars with glaring weaknesses that force him to just stop using the best parts of his style. Since 2024 Ferrari have been bad in qualy and they
@techndly Planned pre-season and still managed to destroy Charles' performance this season. The fact that he managed to start adapting to them in 3 races and start performing at a top level doesn't change that it was a bad decision with shit implementation done in favor of the other driver
@techndly 2/ To be serious Ferrari tend to go backwards on development. Just because the Austin upgrades are working doesn't mean that 2027 will be better than 2026. See 2022-2023, 2024-2025, midseason 2024 and 2025. If they start bad they tend to improve, is they start good not as much.
@techndly 1/ He was doing pretty good at the start and they still introduced his favorite brakes despite having a 50 year partnership with the other manufacturer. It'll be months before we see the SF-27, if we're not dooming what are we going to talk about?
@techndly We know how Ferrari developed over the winter and this year and whose comfort they put priority to. And with the recent statements to the media from that guy, I'm not being very optimistic. It's a given that they take Charles for granted and will focus on the other car first.
@techndly One has to wonder what was Lewis thinking when he steered the development of the 2022 Mercedes to resemble a crushed Red Bull can with the zero pod design.
@FerrariF1FRA In Zandvoort Lewis was blaming Fred, in Monza Charles and his garage, now he's blaming the higher ups. Lewis' comments are the reason we are in this media shitstorm that's been going on since Zandvoort. Just because they are clearly not giving him the contract he wants.
@techndly The new aero rules for 2027 mean all of the teams will have to make changes, but the media reports are going to make Ferrari seem like the only ones who'll be making changes. And they've already started with their different concept talk.