James is absolutely on point in every interview I see of him. Just keeping his composture and showing he absolutely knows the team's current situation and what they need to do right now.
@@_Ben4810 Ah, you mean the bluffer who was considered integral to Merc's unprecendented winning streak and who was leading strategy at Brawn in 2009? You are right about the blufffing, but not about the timing. If anything, Williams have been bluffing for years and Wowles is the guy who is trying his hardest to stop it and a lot of people think he might also be the right one for the job. What you consider blah-blah is what others would call honest communication. And the facts as you like to point out doesn't speak against his interviews. They rather back up his assesment of how big of an overhaul Williams have to do on all levels of the team. Now, was this too wordy for you?
They will. Their current lack of a 3rd chassis is entirely down to them overhauling their entire logistics and manufacturing systems. Getting the new processes and such in and getting them up to speed meant delays in manufacturing. But all of that is short term growing pains for long term benefits.
They need better drivers. It's the weakest lineup on the grid. Even Albon, despite all the praise, has only proven that he's quicker than Latifi and Sargeant.
@@AZBCDEE One of "daubers" drivers has 10 wins, 18 poles, and 67 podiums. You might want to re-think that, cowboy. Albon's done practically nothing of merit (a couple of podiums) and Sargeant's almost inept.
@@Lewythefly Yeah but that's like complaining Red Bull hasn't built a new rear wing if they instead chose to make a chassis. They gambled on not needing one and it didn't pay off, he is not psychic lol
''Technically astute''....??? Yeah, right, so astute that he a*se-coveringly slags off his predecessor Jost Capito's methodology of building race cars in interviews but fails dismally himself to deliver a completed & essential 3rd chassis tub until at least the 6th race of the season...
@@_Ben4810 i concede.. They clearly have limitations of sorts, particularly financial when the bulk of spend was on updating infrastructure.. Gona be a long haul.. One that i hope he survives
A british response would be "we're not causing them, how dare you insult us by suggesting we are???" This was a german response, with actual insight, introspection and analysis of the real causes with no blame games.
James Vowels is a class act. Other people might have taken that personally and been hostile, but James knew it was a fair question and answered accordingly. The PR ladies face said it all... lol
If your drivers are doing their best impressions of NCAAP Dummies you’ll expect to be asked that question. Nevertheless great answer and a fine question to be asked in the circumstances in spite people’s protestation that it was overly antagonistic
Over the past 3 years Mercedes have lost several very key staff, including the very smart and excellent Mr Vowles. It makes you wonder how much this loss of human capital is a factor in their (Mercedes), seeming inability to fix their underperforming car?
I mean they lost a lot before knowing that they had a shit car. Most intelligent people will strive to fix a problem (merc car) instead of cruising at the top
Honestly, I hope for the team to improve and get better. James Vowles as a TP is under tremendous pressure and have not seen a crack or as much as a drop of sweat in his response to these kind of questions. They have a long way to go wrt to processes and manufacturing which can not only be solved by splurging money, but I do see them taking issues head on. A new era(2026 >) might just put them on a better spot in the field.
What I hear is "We ask our drivers push harder than they should because otherwise we wouldn't even be in the midfield." But how he said it was brilliant.
At least the question was straight to the point, a little overly blunt but im sure plenty of reporters have questions like this but tip toe around with the wording, Ted just said fk it and said it how he thought it
He shoulda stuck with Jost Capito's successful & proven race car manufacturing process systems....He's totally brought this entire situation on himself...
The phone holders are ridiculous, they should just wear mics and spend the money on more or better engineers, just more wasted money in a cost cap sport.
I’m happy vowels gets a team of his own but his departure from Mercedes shows it’s pain in these moments, when we see how cool, calm, and complete of a manager he is, and no longer a voice within Merc.
Vowels knew what he was in for when he took on Williams. Rome was not built in a day. That team has decades of underfunding and old out of date ways of doing things. Alex needs to up his game and stay out of trouble, as for Sargent I think his time is up.
Ted asked a perfect question since the cost cap Williams have spent on average 6M$ on damages every year that's 18M$ so far ( including freight) and it's not even been race 1/4 of races and they already have a reported repair cost of at least 2.5M$ and that doesn't include Suzuka crash. For context Merc since cost cap introduction has on average spent 1.6M$ and if you remove 2021( Bottas and Russell Imola) it's only been 800k on average per annum. That's a huge difference
Journalists, nowadays, (if you can call them that) are the equivalent of click bait videos on RU-vid. So disrespectful and tactless. All in the names of likes
Ted Kravitz is just so dumb and provocative. He has done so many comments and questions that made me face palm or rolling eyes. I dunno why Sky Sports keep him
I feel like at this point James has told Ted to ask him the tough questions or something. It's out of character for Ted to be this brutal and James takes it in his stride
