Tactical Errors

This piece is way overdue, so you will all have to excuse my lethargic nature that it has taken me a week to write this.

Ferrari. Man, oh man, you wonder where it all went wrong. There was a time when a strategic call to be made, nine times out of ten, Ferrari could come singing. In the past three years, it seems like fat lady has truly sung in regards in the tactical department.

I often wonder, are people paid to flunk? Is it like those overpaid prats in the banks, that these guys gets bonuses and commendations for a bad job? You have to wonder.

The fact that it has taken Ferrari over two years to actually do something about it, is more shocking. But then again, this is the team that continue to employ a Kimi Raikkonen that increasingly looks like he is phoning it in.

This week has seen Luca Baldisserri, Ferrari team manager, moved to a factory based role. I wonder if it has come too late. As I said above, it has taken over two years of bad decisions before this call was made.

It’s not like any of this calls have been particularly difficult. Even the most casual of armchair motorsport fans could probably have called a better strategy on some race days than Ferrari has. At this level of competition, only so many mistakes can be tolerated.