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**Candykiss** · 11-02-2010, 07:39 AM

By all accounts, Jaguar were never going to end up as regular winners. By the time Tony Purnell turned up at the team and turned them into something a bit more respectable than they were in the days of Rahal and Lauda, the huge budget Ford had offered up was being cut back and some of the people that had been hired had to be let go (admitidely, a lot of the people Ford hired on after buying Stewart were little more than middle management).

Its a shame Paul Stewart contracted cancer when he did, as I reckon he could have led the team far better than any of his successors ever did before Purnell turned up.

Jackie Stewart is pretty critical of Ford management style in
Winning Is Not Enough. He argues that Stewart Grand Prix was basically on the right track before the buyout, and that a very small staff was replaced by committees of Ford executives. That is his position and is not surprising, but the Ford record tends to add some weight to his argument.

11-02-2010, 07:39 AM	#7
Candykiss Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 484 Senior Member	By all accounts, Jaguar were never going to end up as regular winners. By the time Tony Purnell turned up at the team and turned them into something a bit more respectable than they were in the days of Rahal and Lauda, the huge budget Ford had offered up was being cut back and some of the people that had been hired had to be let go (admitidely, a lot of the people Ford hired on after buying Stewart were little more than middle management). Its a shame Paul Stewart contracted cancer when he did, as I reckon he could have led the team far better than any of his successors ever did before Purnell turned up. Jackie Stewart is pretty critical of Ford management style in Winning Is Not Enough. He argues that Stewart Grand Prix was basically on the right track before the buyout, and that a very small staff was replaced by committees of Ford executives. That is his position and is not surprising, but the Ford record tends to add some weight to his argument.
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