Hello!! I love your takes on the whole George/Mercedes clusterfuck. I'm a fairly new fan so I would love to know why Marcus Dudley sucks/should be fired
Thanks for your insight!!
hello hello and thank you!
i mean 'Marcus should be fired' is very much my opinion lmao, but just this year alone he;
kept telling George there was nothing wrong with his car in Japan (later Mercedes will say 'oh something has been wrong with George's car since Japan)
left George in the wrong race mode (safety car restart mode) for 30 laps in Miami, which George then had to fix himself
George's car then took damage and somehow raced better after this after he was complaining about a lack of power
did not respond to George when asked if he should pit under the safety car in Monaco
did not respond to George about anything in Monaco really
did not alert the garage to serve George's penalty when he pitted
and then told George he had served his penalty at Monaco when he hadn't
and then last year (off the top of my head but i'm sure there's more);
Mexico where it took the team seven laps to decide to let George pass Kimi which ruined his race result (the classic "i've got a fucking McLaren up my arse, do you want me to let him pass?" moment)
called an unnecessary pit stop in i can't remember which GP but basically George's tires were almost done with 15 laps left, so pitting for new tires meant possibly losing places for the chance of overtaking later when the rubber had warmed. George ignored this order
to be fair, every engineer has their moments and so i'm not going to like judge all of this too harshly, BUT Dudley doesn't advocate for his driver or celebrate with him the way other engineers do, and sometimes just straight up doesn't listen to George. this year he has made many mistakes in a very short amount of time which really makes me doubt his commitment to his driver as well as his competence
this is all just from my memory but yeah, hope that clears some stuff up
