AlphaTauri brought significantly improved cars to Silverstone, but the drivers missed two training sessions to fully understand how the new products work. However, the team believes they still performed well.
Yuki Tsunoda (18e): “When there are so many new components on the car, it takes time to figure out how they work. In some ways, we certainly added, and in the evening we will analyze the information collected.
Tomorrow is a new day and we will try to work as efficiently as possible in the third practice session to prepare the car as best we can for qualifying.”
Nick deVries (19e): “In the first session the machine worked more or less normally, but in the second session the problems started. It takes time to understand the behavior of the new products the team has prepared for this weekend. Today we need to analyze all the data as accurately as possible so that we can prepare for tomorrow’s qualifying.
Jonathan Eddolschief race engineer: “At this stage we have introduced a new aerodynamic body kit consisting of an underbody, body panels, a rear wing and rear brake ducts. That is why during the training we mainly tried to understand the operation of new products and their characteristics.
To gather as much information as possible, we tried different settings on both machines, running medium and soft tires in the first session.
At the end of the first session there was time for a long series of laps and since the rate of rubber degradation turned out to be higher than expected, knowing this, we continued to look for a solution during the second session.
The analysis showed that the novelties indeed work well. In the course of the second training session, we continued to adjust the settings, but we must admit that we did not manage to find the optimal option.
On short laps the front wheels of the car lacked grip and at Silverstone this led to a serious loss of time.
High temperatures on the road compound exacerbated the problem of front tire overheating, which explained the lack of grip, so we think we can add tomorrow when we work on the balance of the car.
On long runs in the second session, the picture was a little better, but the rubber degradation remained at a high level, so we will have to rethink the tactics of the race.
Source: F1 News
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