Comments on: Calling Planet Anderson…

By: Something for the Weekend – XVII « Viva F1

Something for the Weekend – XVII « Viva F1 — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:01:46 +0000

[...] me have a last look at the mismanagement of the American team. I’m a huge fan of journalist Stuart Codling’s posts; he’s a brilliant writer and one who manages that difficult feat of being amusing whilst [...]

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:21:29 +0000

I really can’t see any investor coming in after this mess. The team has zero credibility now.

By: Steven Roy

Steven Roy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:47:32 +0000

Much as I would like to see a US team in F1 I really hope the FIA put this lot out of their misery. The last thing anyone needs is another year of this farce. There is no reason to believe that they will be any more successful in producing a car when everyone is suspicious of them when they couldn’t achieve it this year when everyone started of with a possitive view of them.

By: Stuart C

Stuart C — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:32:41 +0000

Certainly the team got the mantra of ‘underpromise and overdeliver’ utterly topsy-turvy from the early days – after all the assurances that it would have open and new media-friendly PR strategy, abject silence followed. I note that the PR man got out a week or two back and wrote a rather craven note to the effect of “I’m not crap at my job, it was all their fault…”

By: Aaron James

Aaron James — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:38:38 +0000

Whatever Windsor’s actual role in the downfall of USF1 is, he had a responsibility as one of the founders to ensure the team had a product – in this case a car.

I think as you say, he bears just as much responsbility for the mess as Anderson. Anderson may well be on some other planet than the rest of us. But Windsor should have seen that was the case and sought to course correct much, much earlier in proceedings (if he ever attempted to at all).

By: mr. c.

mr. c. — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:00:51 +0000

if you’ve got a benevolent millionaire entrepreneur on board, share him with Bernie.

that really is the secret, i think.

peter has to shoulder equal responsibility for this mess though. he may have fulfilled his side of the bargain, but he agreed to partner ken in the first place.

By: Leigh O'Gorman

Leigh O'Gorman — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:34:03 +0000

I wonder in what way the chips were down when no car materialised in November??

By: Nick in Dubai

Nick in Dubai — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:33:41 +0000

I do blame ken for most of this mess, afterall it was he who was supposed to deliver the car. Windsor has been more high profile, but at the end of the day he was the sporting director, and since ken messed up building the car, he didnt relly get to do the ’sport’ bit