Great leaders sometimes have to make unpopular decisions and Vasseur’s move to sign Valtteri Bottas and Guanyu Zhou for 2022 was cited as a key reason behind Sauber chairman Pascal Picci’s resignation in the autumn. Will that future, though, involve Szafnauer, who recently issued a non-denial denial amid reports he is set to join Alpine? Watch this space. Such basic mistakes only feed the perception Aston are not quite the tenacious little team they used to be, although key appointments including Martin Whitmarsh and Dan Fallows suggest they will be a force to be reckoned with in the near future. Sebastian Vettel’s P2 in Baku provided brief respite, but his quest for more in Budapest was undermined by a slow stop costing him the chance to undercut race leader Esteban Ocon before he was later disqualified for a fuel infraction. The 2021 floor changes came with the threat of cutting the low-rake teams off at the knees, yet while Mercedes bounced back to win an eighth consecutive Constructors’ title, Aston Martin were unable to mount a recovery. His brief has perhaps changed from total authority to constant appeasement and, as such, he is a leader and a personality diminished. Steiner never missed an opportunity to bang heads together in the days of Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen, but with the son of F1’s god on one side of the garage and the son of the title sponsor on the other he now finds himself in a very different and difficult position. Having two drivers at war never reflects well on the management’s ability to control them, and so it was at Haas as Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin kept on clashing. Here, we rank all 10 on their performances across the 2021 season. ![]() ![]() The drivers may be the stars of the show but Formula 1’s team bosses have an integral role to play in ensuring their little worlds in the paddock keep turning.
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