Karan wrote:
What happened to Herbie Blash's role? The guy used to be Whiting's shadow in race control before. I wonder if they ever replaced his deputy role with someone qualified to backup Masi. It's just too involved of a role to handle singlehandedly.
Masi was the backup I think, there to learn everything about race control as deputy race director (plus do all the stuff Charlie couldn't do while he was at driver's meetings etc, like the F3 race and maybe F2) but Charlie's sudden death promoted him before his time
It sounds like a story we've probably all heard in our day jobs, things are going well in a team, then someone unexpectedly gets a job at another company and quits, the management ask an existing team member to step up a role temporarily while they look for a new boss (while still doing their own job too, doubling the work) and because that team member does an ok job for a while, they think they don't need a boss and suddenly you've got the same or more work being done by less people
It's a false equivilance too, as usually the person they gave all the extra work to gets burnt out and pissed off they aren't respecting him doing a manager's role for standard pay and looks for other work too, so they end up losing 2 people and any other team members who were overworked by them trying to save 1 manager's salary instead of just hiring a new manager and having the right amount of people in the job for the level of work coming in
Masi had to step in at the last minute for Charlie, and that was a great effort considering the circumstances, but did he ever get a new number 2 underneath him?
And how much have Liberty been in his ear about the DRAMA (certainly, the red flag amount has tripled in recent years if not more, the standing restarts after red flags (which tbf we'd been calling for for YEARS on this forum
) restart lines after safety cars ridiulously far down long straights leading to pile ups and further accidents, the list goes onThat's something that hasn't come out in all this, I think.
And it's not something they're gonna admit to in the report either.
The annoying thing is, 2012 is still my and many people's favourite season and had an amazingly exciting final race and no-one even really cares to this day that it ended under SC
The SC was legit, Di Resta's car had crashed on the start finish straight, that's just the way it was...
If Masi had had that kinda purism attitude, none of this would've happened.
