Tuesday, May 12, 2009

So, what do you say NOW, Luca?

Michael is gone. Todt is gone. Ross Brawn, the current genius behind Brawn GP *could* have remained at Ferrari. But Brawn wanted to be Team Principal. The role now donned by Stephen Dome. And what was Luca thinking? Letting a genius like Brawn go? Maybe too many Italian pizzas? If I were Luca, I'd have BEGGED Ross to stay back and given him whatever position he wanted. Heck, I'd have even let me DRIVE in the cars in a few races if he were so inclined.

I can imagine the genius of Ross Brawn married to the money made by Ferrari. Unfortunately, Luca could not imagine this. What a waste! Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING that is being done now at Ferrari is an excuse. We have poor excuses for drivers. We have a poor excuse for a Team Principal. We have poor excuse for Race Engineers. We have poor excuses for the crew. We have poor excuses for pit. Heck, we even have a poor excuse for a President of Ferrari! Any president, no matter how much money he makes for the company, CANNOT be considered good if he let Ross Brawn go. What was he thinking? And now that Ross is decimating everyone here and there, all I have to ask is – So, what do you say NOW, Luca?

I have no ideas why the man was chosen to currently lead Ferrari when he is clearly nowhere in terms of performance of either Ross/Michael/Todt. Why Luca, why? Would Luca consider taking Ross Brawn as Team Principal now? He is not only a team principal, he also has his own team now, a team that's showering the useless and dull drivers of Ferrari with so much aerodynamic smoke and dust!

So, how do we resurrect Ferrari? I have a simple 3 step plan:

  1. First, get back Ross Brawn. The Ferrari team's discipline and attitude is taking a siesta this season. And give him Team Principal position. Spend money like water, buyout his Brawn GP. Fight and beg. But convince him to lead Ferrari team.
  2. Get Fernando Alonso as No. 1 driver and get Jenson Button as No. 2. Forget Vettel and Hamilton and other 'young, cute boys' and get REAL winners in the team. If you sympathise, maybe you can give Kimi and Massa the job to clean up the cars before the race. That's all they are fit for. Either case, I don't think Kimi is going to stay long...
  3. Be present at EACH AND EVERY Ferrari race. I'm sure you don't need to get in day-to-day business of Ferrari now. So be there at all races and get some Ferrari PR done. Everytime a red car races the track, people expect Schumi to step out. Instead we have his blocker and the robot monotonously grunting some nonsense in the face of reality.

PUT SOME MEAT INTO THOSE DECISIONS OF YOURS LUCA.

Please. Don't let Ferrari go down in F1 this ingloriously. Please.

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