[ll931110]

Nope, not that easy. Look at Scuderia Ferrari F1 team. In 2014 - 2018 the team principal was a business guy (Maurizio Arrivabene), whom was pushed out to make room for a technical guy (Mattia Binotto), whom led the technical work to bring Ferrari challenging the F1 title. And look at what happens now: they went backward from the 2nd best team to shared 5th-6th, burning a budget of $400M for a car that was a lot slower than their own version last year.

[philjohn]

And yet when they put a technical guy in charge during the Schumacher years they flourished.

I don't think the problem is either Arrivabene or Binotto - it was Marchionne and it's going to take a long time to fix.

[ll931110]

Right, but Ross Brawn was hardly alone. He worked well with Jean Todt whom did the negotiation and business handling.

For all the credits to Binotto, he's not a good negotiator.