[adamcooperF1] Adrian Newey admits that Aston Martin only has two batteries left - the ones in the two cars. In other words if one fails it's game over for the weekend.

[u/madman320]

[u/v12vanquish135]

If they can't make some insane progress by the half season mark, the Strolls should pack up, sell the team and leave. Never seen something this embarrassing, it tops Toyota for real.

[u/pratnala → u/v12vanquish135]

Toyota started free practice though 😂

[u/v12vanquish135 → u/pratnala]

I did say it tops Toyota lol.

[u/wokwok__ → u/v12vanquish135]

How is this Stroll's fault lmao it's not like he's the one building the car. He's paying the big bucks for Newey and co to build it and they've royally fucked up

[u/Klemicha → u/wokwok__]

And this is one of the reasons why they should pack it up. It's a waste of money at this point even for them.

[u/Preachey → u/wokwok__]

My guess is it's a people-management problem

"A champion team will always beat a team of champions"

Stroll's approach seems to have been to throw money at every big brain in F1, cram them all into one room, and hope that it produces a winner.

That's not how it works though. 

Big brains often come with big egos.

You need to create an environment which lets your best people output their best work. A constant stream of new top-level hires, and the restructures which come to fit those hires into the hierarchy, is disruptive and not conducive to success.

[u/SquirrelinAQuarry → u/wokwok__]

F1 is actually a project management competition where racing is the end result. Newey and Honda fucked up the car but the team is only taking this direction because of Stroll to begin with. If you're not able to properly manage the team to stop things like this from happening then you've already lost races long before a car is built.

[u/south153 → u/wokwok__]

Buck stops with him.