The OTMAR Interview - best bits by Peter Windsor

[@geoffreymitchell6693]

You were absolutely right: Otmar is a real person and it shines through. Great interview. As an aside I really appreciate your efforts with this channel. Your experience brings a lot of value and I enjoy your humble style in contrast to your vast experience and knowledge.

[@WjC00LEY]

Otmar was absolutely scapegoated, that team is an absolute mess. The Professor called them out w 100% accuracy. Abysmal practices coming for a “constructor” trying to cut corners in this sport.

[@teknikairaoulolgandessabek4102]

What Otmar said about 5 years needed to build a championship winning team is exactly true. When you look at all the examples he mentioned from Mercedes to Redbull (who did it twice) he is right on the money.

[@alcoyne3333333333333]

Thanks for a great honest interview Otmar 👍

[@_ilsegugio_]

Otmar is a great guy. looks like the Alpine participation as a constructor may come to an end way before their fiasco does 😢

[@BlueJazzBoyNZ]

Thanks for the info..

[@Lewythefly]

He was responsible for the Alonso and Oscar mess. Otmar was very critical of Oscar at the time. But clearly, they had no contract in place for him and clearly didn't even communicate with Oscar before announcing on social media he would drive for them. What a shit show.

[@alcoyne3333333333333]

Alonso went for the bigger money from stroll. Everyone loves him but he keeps moving to the wrong team time after time . There's a reason the top teams haven't got him over the last few year's mate 😮

[@chrisday4845]

Was Otmar responsible for the legal blunder that voided the Piastri contract, and who gave the green light for the social media announcement? The answer is surely no for both. So how is Otmar responsible exactly?

[@Lewythefly]

@@chrisday4845 yes in my opinion he was. As Team Principal you need to ensure your driver line up is secured. That includes your reserve driver in case one of the two main drivers is injured or can't race for what ever reason. Clearly the team principal didn't ensure this was done in the case of Oscar as they had no contract in place for him.

[@ayushshukla6823]

Alonso maybe but oscar was handled poorly by their ex-ceo.

[@dmurphy1578]

Alpine messed up.

[@alcoyne3333333333333]

Otmar is right.. sooner the better Lewis leaves so we can have the silver arrows back 😮

[@McRocket]

12:53 - this part sounds iffy to me. He is telling his bosses (it sounds to me) that they have to wait a year or two for the top people to become available. And then they can try to recruit them. But what if he cannot get the top people? Then the wait will have been for little. And you are kissing off those two years as nothing more than rebuilding largely with people you do not even have yet. That seems a strange way to try and turn a team into a winner. Also, everyone knows who the top people are. So if all you are going to do is simply wait until those people become available and then put everything on outbidding others? When you are a mid-pack team and thus are less attractive than the top teams? That sounds like a recipe for continued mid-packness, to me. Seems to me that if you want to win when you are mid-pack. You have to either pledge to massively outbid everyone for the top people... no matter the cost. Or, you have to try another direction. Hire the smartest young minds you can find. People with loads of potential but no CV. Take chances...be mega-aggressive. Not just base everything on recruitment in a few years and hope you win the bidding war. Just my opinion. Great interview, thank you. ☮

[@garyradley5694]

What he is basically saying is the Renault engine is crap. eg. They do ok when engine power is not important, such as Monaco.

[@MiguelMorenoGP]

Aaaand the team only got worse after he left...

[@joea2484]

Both Alpine management and Otmar are a joke, it’s a marriage made in heaven if you’re looking for a team incapable of introspection or being able to read the room. He’d love to blame the team only, but he didn’t have to go out of his way to belittle and comment about his drivers. Even a successful team principal could easily end up having to eat up their words, even more a nobody like Otmar. And that’s just a taste of his inability to communicate, imagine him “motivating” the rest of the team internally.

[@Enzoblueblood]

I remember an interview where he talked about the challenges in recruiting talent above the “elementary level” (I’m not quite sure what that means) and that to recruit these people he said, “you gotta be a pirate!”, which made me wonder which pirate did he think he needed to be like? Whichever one he sure wasn’t Blackbeard or even Anne Bonney. Good luck to him in his next endeavour.

[@joea2484]

@@Enzoblueblood I have nothing against Omar, but I just can’t tell whether he’s oblivious or malicious about his incapacity of assuming any blame for mistakes. The sign of a good leader is that you take flak for those below him and then you either discipline or clean their act internally. Omar hardly has shown these qualities when the bad times arrive. Alpine staff and engineers had the potential to grow to be more than they achieved, and he was incapable of rising to the occasion. Omar reminds me of those people that are capable of learning something off a book and repeat it, but they’re unable to fully understand the content, so when something deviates from the plan they’re just a deer in the headlights. Also, I understand that Mr Windsor probably had some kind of unspoken agreement to let the guest “shine”, but he could have politely been more insightful into why Alpine went down and his actual involvement in it. Rather, it was almost like Omar some was successful Ross Brawn style principal surrounded by morons, with no pressure from Windsor whatsoever.

[@Enzoblueblood]

@@joea2484 👍

[@Tinei1]

Am i the only one who thinks toto should hire him

[@AXPorto]

The only one indeed