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Originally Posted by stefanvv
That's the thing, though. In professional motorsports you get paid to do a job, those that pay the piper call the tune...
When I was a paid guy crashing my meager brains out, I was paid 'Start money" by the organiser of the event. They paid me to put on a good a show as I could since we all know I wasn't going to be fighting for the win.. If a reporter asked me about what I thought of the event or somebody put a camera in my face, I better speak up, be friendly and have something amusing to say in decent French. If I crashed I was supposed to get up and put a charge on even if it hurt like hell and some minor thing like a couple of fingers were broken, or bleeding and bruised all to hell.. They paid good, I did what they asked.
A No.2 driver knows this by time they have gotten to that level, they have managers and people to explain their role, and they know how fast they are compared to the other guys so they know what they should do: they do what they are paid to.
Dimvii is right.
Every business has its own hierarchy, or chain of command.. It takes some maturity of disciple or seeing a bigger picture than your own momentary wishes to function well in a big hierarchy... Some can do it--and reap long term benefits, clearly Loeb can and does.. So maybe just aren't team people enough, or the team is too fantasy based..
Clearly something is wrong with the people deciding car build and set up at Ford with drastically wrong set ups and pads and tires, it's not like they car or the road or the driver's have changed that much...is it they gamble more?
Anyway that's the way it is when you accept money...you do what you're told to..
(Thank goodness I was my own mechanic, engine builder, suspension specialist, driver for the transport and diesel mechanic, oh and my own manager mostly :s mash: because I'm not a guy who works in a team environment that well...)( And all those things worked good for paying the rent later when I was old and broken and washed up at 3:s mokin :)
