Enjoying title-winning success with Williams, McLaren and Mercedes, even though he only entered F1 in 1987, Paddy Lowe has personally overseen some of the sport's greatest innovations in that time including active suspension, powered brakes and steering and seamless gear-shifting. Leaving Mercedes for Williams at the start of 2017 one might have expected the success to continue, what with the Grove outfit having finished in the top five for four successive seasons. Yet, halfway through his second season, Williams, like fellow 'garagiste' McLaren, is struggling, both teams looking and sounding nothing like the powerhouses of just a couple of decades ago. Once rightly considered giants of...
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