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**paydayus** · 04-07-2009, 01:26 AM

SD has been good for Ferrari. Their dominance was next going to be never ending. He's overseen the team in the transissional phase, winning a constructors title in his first year in charge.

He's also alined Ferrari with the other teams, making FOTA a much greater force within F1 and its structure, and to be fair FOTA have done a very good job so far.

Who makes the strategy decisions anyhow? I doubt it would have been SD's call?

When Domenicali took the helms of the team they had a very good organisation and working morale, it was bound to carry the team for a while but not anymore. The rules stayed quite the same for a long time since Brawn left the team so it's not a surprise they stayed on top for a while. Now there are new rules and new technology. The real weaknesses of an organisation are more apparent when there are big changes in rules. A good example of that is Prost/Ligier team of late 90's, they got a Brawn designed chassis in 1995 and were quite competitive for a number of years, modifying the car each year, but in 1998 there were major changes to the rules and they were absolutely nowhere and went bust.

04-07-2009, 01:26 AM	#15
paydayus Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 545 Senior Member	SD has been good for Ferrari. Their dominance was next going to be never ending. He's overseen the team in the transissional phase, winning a constructors title in his first year in charge. He's also alined Ferrari with the other teams, making FOTA a much greater force within F1 and its structure, and to be fair FOTA have done a very good job so far. Who makes the strategy decisions anyhow? I doubt it would have been SD's call? When Domenicali took the helms of the team they had a very good organisation and working morale, it was bound to carry the team for a while but not anymore. The rules stayed quite the same for a long time since Brawn left the team so it's not a surprise they stayed on top for a while. Now there are new rules and new technology. The real weaknesses of an organisation are more apparent when there are big changes in rules. A good example of that is Prost/Ligier team of late 90's, they got a Brawn designed chassis in 1995 and were quite competitive for a number of years, modifying the car each year, but in 1998 there were major changes to the rules and they were absolutely nowhere and went bust.
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