Cadillac officially announced last month the hiring of Marc Hynes as the new sporting director, a move considered one of the final steps in consolidating the team’s management structure for its Formula 1 debut, which takes place this week during the Australian GP. Hynes previously served as Lewis Hamilton’s manager.
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Team principal Graeme Lowdon explained that the executive will play a central role in the integration between the technical and sporting departments, completing a leadership team that already includes Dan Towriss as CEO and Mario Andretti as ambassador: “Anyone who knows Marc knows that he is extremely competitive in every aspect, and that is very important, especially in a new team, when we have a very experienced engineering group and technical group, but who haven’t even spent 12 months working together yet,” Lowdon told the press.
He highlighted the importance of “closing the feedback loop” between engineering and the track. “You can’t really have engineering delivering solutions in a racing environment unless the loop is closed, and while we have incredibly experienced drivers, it’s not really the driver’s job to take on every aspect of that. Otherwise, you have a team that is evaluating its own work, and that is not the way to progress.”
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According to him, the team’s philosophy is based on “absolute and open honesty,” amid strong competition in the category. “We don’t have time to waste time, and we have some pretty impressive competition that we need to try and push, so [hiring Hynes] is just part of that overall structure, and it’s one of the last pieces of the puzzle of the whole thing that you see coming together.”
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