Sam Michael to leave McLaren at the end if this season

Sam Michael to leave McLaren at the end if this season

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TheAngryDog

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12,394 posts

208 months

miniman

24,827 posts

261 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Mezzanine

9,148 posts

218 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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'Unexplainable' improvement in McLaren race results in 2015 then!

Sixpackpert

4,538 posts

213 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Mezzanine said:
'Unexplainable' improvement in McLaren race results in 2015 then!
Quite, I have never seen a team do well with him involved!

_Batty_

12,268 posts

249 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Mezzanine said:
'Unexplainable' improvement in McLaren race results in 2015 then!
Just about to post this. hehe

scubadude

2,618 posts

196 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Mezzanine said:
'Unexplainable' improvement in McLaren race results in 2015 then!
:-) T'was also my first thought, I can imagine Honda executives are getting blind drunk celebrating right now!

IN51GHT

8,777 posts

209 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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I said to PH when SM had been made Tech Director at williams it was a mistake. Got told I was wrong......

DanielSan

18,747 posts

166 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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The curse is over at last hehe

Lincsblokey

3,175 posts

154 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Woo Hoo, pit strategy that works, sensible team management, all coming to Mclaren in 2015.... rofl

El Guapo

2,787 posts

189 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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I do feel rather sorry for the guy. The kiss of death reputation is probably unjustified and must be a bit of a weight to bear.

VolvoT5

4,155 posts

173 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Mezzanine said:
'Unexplainable' improvement in McLaren race results in 2015 then!
biglaugh

Unfortunately Michael does seem to be linked with teams in decline! I wonder where he will go next.

RemaL

24,967 posts

233 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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VolvoT5 said:
Mezzanine said:
'Unexplainable' improvement in McLaren race results in 2015 then!
biglaugh

Unfortunately Michael does seem to be linked with teams in decline! I wonder where he will go next.
Ferrari ? Oh wait....

woof

8,456 posts

276 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Mezzanine said:
'Unexplainable' improvement in McLaren race results in 2015 then!
Agreed !

rubystone

11,252 posts

258 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Any possible link with this?

http://brabham.co.uk/news/project-brabham-launched...

Just sayin....maybe nothing in it...

fatboy69

9,371 posts

186 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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So that's good results & wins for McLaren in 2015!!!!!!!

Crafty_

13,248 posts

199 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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He's going to Australia, no more F1.

dazm

158 posts

173 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Sam is actually a very intelligent guy and - despite all the nonsense on here stating otherwise - he's actually very good at his job. He's certainly the most grounded and approachable senior figure in the team and always has time for the staff on the shop floor. In fact he (along with Eric now) is quite a breath of fresh air at Mclaren and it's a shame to see him go.
All this crap about him being responsible for poor performance is thoroughly undeserved. It's quite sad seeing the lack of respect for him on here. He's most definitely one of the good guys

entropy

5,403 posts

202 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Sixpackpert said:
Quite, I have never seen a team do well with him involved!
Jordan? Williams/BMW?

Crafty_

13,248 posts

199 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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The way I see it is he was put in to Williams to replace Patrick head who was heading in to retirement.

With all due respect I don't think that anyone could simply replace Patrick. I think it was a big culture change for the team and it doesn't appear that Michael got much assistance/help. Quite possible that he wasn't best suited to the role either.

When he joined McLaren I understand that there was widespread personnel change in the pit crews. Their performance was not good, but Michael took charge of the problem and they actually did the fastest pit stop of the year if memory serves.

I don't think he was anywhere near as incompetent as people make out.

I found this more amusing:

Paul McEvoy ‏@Pau1Mc 7h7 hours ago
Interesting that @bbcf1 are reporting management changes at McLaren, but then I saw who’d written the article so now I assume it’s untrue.

hehe

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 23rd October 2014
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The biggest mistake they made on the pitstop crews when Sam joined was try and run before they could walk, rushing out new procedures and equipment in race environments before they were fully fleshed out, making some monumental cockups that cost them race wins as a result. They may have been achieving the fastest stops when it worked, but that's pretty useless if you screw up more in the ones you don't get right. It's pretty basic common sense.