LONDON : The late McLaren boss Teddy Mayer liked to compare Formula One drivers to interchangeable light-bulbs, declaring 'you plug them in and they do the job', and nowadays the same might be said for team principals.The season kicks off in Bahrain next week with four of the 10 teams under new management
LONDON : The late McLaren boss Teddy Mayer liked to compare Formula One drivers to interchangeable light-bulbs, declaring"you plug them in and they do the job", and nowadays the same might be said for team principals.
Ferrari, presided over by founder Enzo for more than 40 years until his death in 1988, have Frederic Vasseur freshly installed at Maranello as their fifth principal in under a decade.Andreas Seidl has moved from McLaren to replace Vasseur at Sauber, the Swiss company which runs the Alfa Romeo team, with Alessandro Alunni Bravo effectively the acting principal reporting to him.
"I was surprised about how these things went, especially in that very short period of time," he added of the winter reshuffle. With the exception of Toto Wolff, who owns a third of Mercedes F1, the current crop are managers reporting to someone else and, like their counterparts in soccer, dependent on results.Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll really calls the shots at Aston Martin, Frenchman Laurent Rossi is the CEO of Renault-owned Alpine and American Zak Brown the true leader of McLaren Racing.
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