Hyundai WRT

[flat_right]

Maybe it was because of Adamo that the team is now structurally in a difficult place.

Isn't this the exact characterisation of Adamo?

And Neuville is adding insult to the injury:

"We need people who make decisions, who lead the team, who have the strength and the charisma to manage a company like Hyundai Motorsport. Today, we lack them. The team is in a bit of a crisis."

[mknight]

That does not have to be a contradiction.

Adamo's (seemingly) micro-managing (+screaming?) style could have made the team rely on this style of management and not work properly with a different style.

[rallyfiend]

I have a very strong assumption that Ott is more referring to the fact that they don't have anyone in that position still as Team Principal.

There must surely be a huge amount of paralysis. Even the new Korean President has only been there for a month or so.

[logic]

Its easy to blame something or someone but when you are the one choosing your setups and then complaining who is to blame?

[mknight]

Its easy to blame something or someone but when you are the one choosing your setups and then complaining who is to blame?

You complain that there's nobody else to blame off course

[flat_right]

I have a very strong assumption that Ott is more referring to the fact that they don't have anyone in that position still as Team Principal.

There must surely be a huge amount of paralysis. Even the new Korean President has only been there for a month or so.

I agree. When I mentioned that he misses Adamo, I was rather thinking about a person who is the team leader like Adamo was. Both Ott and Thierry mention this and Ott surprisingly brought this up quite randomly as he was asked about car development. Which for me was unexpected as he is usually quite quiet about these kind of things. Ott has publicly praised Adamo several times, that he was the one who was demanding and pushing people inside and outside the factory. IIRC this was one of the reasons Ott left Toyota because Adamo could prove himself to be a man who gets what he wants.

[dimviii]

Its easy to blame something or someone but when you are the one choosing your setups and then complaining who is to blame?

yes but we have to say that HE was choosing his setups at yaris too.

[Eli]

yes but we have to say that HE was choosing his setups at Yaris too.

But now with time being a such a limiting factor, after all they had a spring break rather than the usual summer, they still need to develop the car, because atm it seems they're driving an undeveloped car, so setup will be difficult to find without the car being developed.

[WRCStan]

On leadership and Moncet: nobody gives their all to a role they haven't been offered permanently after doing it for 6 months. Sweden was probably the limit at which to give him the job and save his credibility and the morale of everybody involved. He won't bring it back by getting the role now. If he has the ambition for that kind of role he'd be better off looking elsewhere.

Dithering execs are a shambles. Need to act fast, install some confidence in everybody with a fresh face and sack/replace whoever later down the road if necessary.

[dimviii]

But now with time being a such a limiting factor, after all they had a spring break rather than the usual summer, they still need to develop the car, because atm it seems they're driving an undeveloped car, so setup will be difficult to find without the car being developed.

that i wanted to say Eli is, Tanak knows how to setup a car.We have seen it at Ford and at Toyota.
When he cant setup Hyundai at all rallies or at all stages,this doesnt mean that Tanak doesnt know how to setup a car,but rather that the car has some problems to setup correctly everywhere.