Patrick Head leaves F1!

Skeeter · 28 Nov 2011 at 11:17

http://www.planetf1.com/driver/3213/7338519/Patrick-Head-leaves-F1

He's not leaving Williams, just moving to non F1 focused areas of the company, but still.

However, I have been saying for a while that the 'old men' of Williams are loosing touch and should maybe stand aside and let some young blood in to drive the team forwards. Hopefully they can bounce back from what has been a disappointing downwards spiral.

The Williams Hybrid technology is great though. Flywheel based KERS that have been used in Porsche endurance cars with great success.

FrankJH · 28 Nov 2011 at 13:17

Pity to see Head leave the pit lane (as was said over the weekend he was a leading voice in FOTA)

Not sure if Williams (F1) issues were just design or the Cosworth engine as well, but at least they are back with Renault as of next season.

pingwing · 28 Nov 2011 at 15:11

It was announced in FP2 I think when Eddie had a word with him (Think its been known for a while just no ones mentioned it)

Sad to see him leave as he's a nice guy really but he's had a good run in the game either way

Guerrilla · 28 Nov 2011 at 15:16

Always liked Patrick Head, seems like a top bloke, one of my favourite team personnel.

Hopefully he will turn up to some races now and again like he said he would.

More importantly though hopefully this is the start to a positive new start for Williams.

Flibster · 29 Nov 2011 at 15:57

Not the sort of guy you want to get on the wrong side of, but a top chap.

I think he can be legitimately put into the engineering greats of F1.

dannyjo22 · 29 Nov 2011 at 18:13

I saw him up close at Barcelona once, I so wanted to talk to him but he had this permanent angry look on his face. Completely unapproachable, brilliant in his day but his driver treatment leaved a lot to be desired

Flibster · 29 Nov 2011 at 20:46

dannyjo22 said:
I saw him up close at Barcelona once, I so wanted to talk to him but he had this permanent angry look on his face. Completely unapproachable, brilliant in his day but his driver treatment leaved a lot to be desired

I think it was pretty spot on. You don't perform, you get yelled at.

Duke · 29 Nov 2011 at 20:51

Flibster said:
I think it was pretty spot on. You don't perform, you get yelled at.

Thats a lot of shouting in the last few years

dannyjo22 · 29 Nov 2011 at 21:13

Flibster said:
I think it was pretty spot on. You don't perform, you get yelled at.

Haha he must have done a lot of shouting at himself lately!

Some drivers these days need more than that to get the best out of them, maybe they shouldn't after all they are paid enough money to perform but people have better techniques to get better work out of their employees than that these days, well I hope yours does

Still it's better than the driving lessons Stewart tried to give Magnesson, how embarassing was that. Amazing to think that he was paired with Rubens at Stewart.

When you look at the simplicity of the last williams cars to win titles you can see why Head got left behind. The difference aerodynamically on just the front wing is mind blowing compared to todays cars.