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TEAM REPRESENTATIVES
Alessandro ALUNNI BRAVI (Alfa Romeo), Toto WOLFF (Mercedes), James VOWLES (Williams),
Franz TOST (AlphaTauri)
Q: Alessandro, what a great
start for Alfa Romeo in the Bahrain Grand Prix, Valtteri coming home in
eighth place. Tell us about his performance – because some people in the
team are saying it’s his best drive for Alfa Romeo. Would you agree with
that?
Alessandro ALUNNI BRAVI: It was a great performance for the team, of course,
and for Valtteri. Last year, as you remember, we struggled with the start,
with the first lap. I think that he had the very best start of the last two
years with us, and then we had a solid performance in the race, which
confirmed what we have seen during the test. But, of course, it’s the first
race, so we don’t need to rest on our laurels. We need to work hard. We have
another test, a very important one, another attempt today, a very important
one in Jeddah this weekend, so, let’s keep our feet on the ground. We know
we want to fight with Alpine, with McLaren but the Championship is long.
Q: As you say, one swallow doesn’t make a summer – but how much confidence
does Bahrain give you coming into this weekend?
AAB: It gives confidence that the work we have performed during the winter
went into the right direction. We know that we had some weaknesses in last
year’s car, there are areas we need to improve quite a lot and we did a
step. How much this step will be, big or sufficient, we will know during the
season.
Q: How much more performance do you think there is to come from this design?
AAB: It’s not about performance or this design. It’s about how much we will
be able to develop the car during the season. This is a starting point. We
need to be consistent in developing the car. This was one of the areas where
last year we miss something. It’s where we are working more.
Q: Tell us a little bit, if you could, about the chemistry inside Alfa Romeo
at the minute – particularly the influence of the drivers. They seem to be
working very well together. We saw that when Zhou went for the fastest lap,
sacrificing the end of his race in Bahrain.
AAB: There is a good spirit within the team. Both drivers have been working
very well, also last year. They complement each other. And, of course, this
is the direction we want to be. There is teamwork in every area, starting
from the driver.
Q: James, coming to you now. It's only a sample of one race but what is your
assessment of the FW45? What can you achieve with that car this year?
James VOWLES: It's got a lot of the characteristics of last year's car. So,
what I mean by that since there's going to be tracks where it's very strong
as it was last year as well. I think here, for example, you'll see it suits
the track a little bit more. But exactly as mentioned previously, we need to
take care, because these two tracks are not the normality throughout the
season. There are plenty of other tracks where there are some weaknesses
that are definitely inherent in the car, still in the car. That will come
forward.
Q: Now you've had time to get your feet under the table at Williams, since
we last spoke to you in preseason testing. How would you describe the vibe
in Grove?
JV: The best word I could use is ‘spark’. There's a spark. And it's
fascinating to see. There are shoulders lifted, there’s heads held high now,
there is really direction that they can see where we're going and how we're
moving forward. It’s a team clearly that have had a tremendously difficult
winter, and difficult few years even prior to that. But they can start to
see the light at the end of the tunnel and direction we're going in.
Q: And how different to Mercedes, your previous experience?
JV: Yeah, I mean, it is very different. You have to take into account that
Mercedes was dominant for so many years. It has facilities beyond dreams and
desires. To a certain extent, Williams didn't necessarily have that. It had
a period of its history where it didn't have the investment required and it
reflects that in the building that's there. However, what I can see between
both organisations is passion: desire to effectively move forward and do the
best you can and that remains there whether you're at the back of the grid
or the front.
Q: Now you've started to make changes already with the announcement of a new
Chief Operating Officer of Frederic Brousseau. Just tell us: what is he
bringing to the team?
JV: Some of the key elements are… a Formula 1 Car is circa 15,000 components
that have to be built, produced and fit together within the space of a few
weeks. To get that properly done, you need an amount of planning across all
of your organisation. And that's really what he brings to the table. He's
done that at Pratt & Whitney, he's been there for over 20 years, he has a
good experience and good knowledge about how to bring thousands of people –
in our case, hundreds – together in a key clinch moment. And especially
under the cost-cap: the more efficient you can be at doing that, the more
money that's available to develop the car later.
Q: So, is that the most important hole that you needed to fill first, and
then what comes next?
JV: I wouldn't say it's necessarily the most important, but I think it's a
key element of every aspect of the team. Going forwards, it's still… there's
a technical leadership where, at the moment, I have lots of people standing
in and doing a great job, but we need to supplement them with good
experience from industry.
Q: Final word on the drivers. Alex Albon, great job to the points last time
out, but specifically Logan Sargeant. He seemed pretty stoked after his
debut in Bahrain. Just what has impressed you about Logan so far?
JV: From the first laps of testing, immediately you could see that the pace
was there. I was a little bit reticent in wondering whether it would take
him a little bit of time to get used to it. The second aspect is, it’s his
first grand prix. The pressure on your shoulders is enormous and he took it
in his stride. He was three-wide through Turn 1. Normally in your rookie
race, that ends up in disaster and he just dealt with it, with enormous
amounts of maturity, and from then onwards, and I'm sure as you'll see,
throughout the year, he'll step forward.
Q: What's his feedback, like?
JV: Very good. It's as you would imagine: he hasn't got the experience that
Alex brings to the team. But he has this young, fiery passion that comes
with things. He wants every millisecond you can out the car.
Q: Franz, sadly, no points for AlphaTauri in Bahrain. Is that the current
level of performance of the car or did the weekend throw up some unforeseen
problems?
Franz TOST: Unfortunately, I think it's currently the performance level of
the car, because we expected a much better car. We struggled in Bahrain,
looks a little bit different here. I hope that at least we are with one car
in Q3, but we have to do a lot of things to make the car faster. And
especially on the aerodynamic side. There are different programmes going on,
but the engineers tell me that we make some good progress, but I don't trust
them anymore. I just want to see the lap time because this is the only thing
which counts.
Q: Franz, can we break it down. What are the issues with this car?
FT: Too little downforce. Not enough downforce, therefore the car is
unstable under braking, overheating the rear tyres, washing-out at the apex,
bad traction. Everything what you need to do a good lap time.
Q: And do you expect, with only five what we call ‘braking events’ here in
Saudi Arabia, do you expect to be more competitive here?
FT: Yeah, here in Jeddah the characteristic of the racetrack is completely
different. And both drivers were, yeah, not satisfied with the car but said
the car feels better than in Bahrain. We have still some understeering
problems which we have to get rid of, and the rest, and we will see.
Q: Franz, you say you don’t trust your engineers anymore. Do you mean that?
FT: Yes, because during the winter months, they told me the car is
fantastic, we’re making big progress, and then we come to Bahrain, and we
are nowhere. What should I say?
Q: Can we talk about the drivers. A lot was made over the winter of your
desire to see Yuki step up. Have you seen the improvements you wanted?
FT: Yes. Yuki made a big step forward. Not only from the driving side. Also
from the technical side. His technical feedback is really good, and I must
say, also, his race was competitive. I think he got the most out of the car.
And Nyck is still learning. What we have to provide the drivers is a fast
car and then they are there. Both of them are high-skilled drivers; both of
them showed in the past that they can win races, that they can win
championships. It’s up to the team to provide them with a competitive car.
Q: How's Nyck settling in?
FT: Very good. I must say that he is quite familiar with the team, with the
engineers and it's, as I just mentioned before, up to us to give him a good,
competitive car.
Q: Because Helmut Marko did say after Bahrain that he’d like to see Nyck
step it up. Do you agree with him?
FT: Nyck will step up. If he has a good car, then he will be there. You
know, if you are a young driver, a newcomer in Formula 1, then it's even
more difficult if the car causes troubles. It’s easier with a competitive
car to show good performance. And I'm convinced that Nyck will increase his
performance and that he will show us good races.
Q: Thanks Franz. Toto, coming to you now. So, we had Lewis in here yesterday
and he revealed that Red Bull, he thought, were one and a half seconds a lap
faster in the race in Bahrain than Mercedes. Do you expect to be closer
here?
Toto WOLFF: I think in motor racing, everything can happen, and Bahrain is a
track that is very different and so is Jeddah, like James mentioned before.
But there are no miracles in this sport. And I hope that we can perform
better than we did in Bahrain. At that stage of the season, and where we are
with our position, it is very much trying to find performance for ourselves.
I don't think that we can beat the teams in front of us. That's the reality.
It's about tuning the car to the best of their abilities here on track. And
then see where we end up in Qualifying and in the race.
Q: But looking at the season as a whole. If it is one and a half seconds a
lap, as Lewis says, Does the W14 have the development scope to close that
gap?
TW: We are very clear and transparent in the team, where and how much is
missing. And we will just need to relentlessly push to find more performance
and for sure what we're not doing is giving up, even if at that stage,
you're looking at the gaps and thinking ‘how are we ever going to bridge
that?’ But the drive is there, determination is there and I think, different
to before Bahrain, we pretty much know where we need to tackle the
performance deficit.
Q: Have you pinpointed a race where you need to have made significant
progress? Is it Baku, I think I’ve heard mentioned, where we’re going to see
some significant developments?
TW: We have set ourselves, internally, strong targets because we know where
the deficit is but I wouldn’t want to talk publicly about it because it
would just put pressure where… we have enough pressure doing it ourselves.
Q: Well, talking of pressure, Lewis said yesterday that he used an
unfortunate choice of words when he talked about the team after the race in
Bahrain. Do you agree that it was an unfortunate choice of words and have
you spoken to him about it?
TW: Well, we speak all the time, but it’s not a single word that matters in
the team because we know each other so well. We know there are emotions at
play with him, with me, with many others in the team and that we wear our
hearts on our sleeves, and sometimes you say things that in the media being
very quickly translated in a controversial way or polarising, which, inside
of the team, never cause any waves because we know that the emotions can run
high. And to be honest, if I’m watching a lap time deficit, a coming
together or a race that doesn’t go well, I’d also like to say that I’m not
happy where the team, where the car has been developed to. But that’s OK
inside of the team, we want the emotion high and we have tough love, we are
saying it straight out when it’s missing and nobody’s ever going to… not
take it on the chin in the team.
Q: The driver silly season has come especially early this year it seems,
much of it involving Lewis, whose contract is up for renewal at the end of
this season. Are you keen to get those contract discussions started
especially early?
TW: Well, I have no idea what is being said in the silly season. I just know
where we are with Lewis and with George and nothing else is relevant and
we’re talking when we want to do it and how but we just need to change some
terms, the dates basically.
Q: So you’re confident that Lewis will stay at the team beyond this year?
TW: I’m absolutely confident.
QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR
Q: (Jon Noble – Motorsport.com) Toto, George said yesterday that there was a
big meeting in Brackley after Bahrain going through what’s gone wrong, the
action plan, everything’s now set in place and you know the path you’re
going down. What is the plan to turn things around? What are the short-term
possibilities and potential change of concepts and all new direction for
where you go?
TW: There's many big and many good meetings happening in the team and it's
quite an interesting process because… We had the perfect storm last year
because the car got better and better and then you start to question the
concept of the car less than you probably should. And now we have to prove
that we're not happy where we've landed, we're overall not happy about the
amount of downforce, the mechanical balance, I mean all of it, it never
comes alone. And I think all these meetings are giving us more clarity, and
more focus where we need to tackle in order to turn this around quickly.
Q: (Dieter Rencken – Racing News 365) Toto, could you just clarify: if you
change concept, you have to change the entire chassis? And do you have
budget for that and crash tests and whatever?
TW: No, I think that it's out of the question that you change the chassis,
because simply there is not enough budget in the cost cap. But changing the
way the aerodynamics work and bodywork is perfectly within the scope.
Q: (Matt Kew – Autosport) Toto, the team has been very honest, issuing a
letter this week to all its fans, which I understand for an eight-time
Constructors champion that the results aren't where you want them to be but
it's not a total disaster to where even Lewis qualifying or going out in Q1
last year. So why did the team feel the need to be that honest and address
it so publicly?
TW: Yeah, it can always go worse, don't remind me of that Q1 last year,
that's still a little bit of a trauma. I think we really over those 10 years
have created a culture which is around tough love. We were able to have
conversations that are maybe in some other groups or companies or teams out
of the ordinary, but in our team we are just able to confront each other
with the reality. And the reality is always based on our own expectations of
our own performances and now we can say, you know we got it wrong last year
and this is where it was and we really continue to push hard to get the car
to a better place. And at the end of the season, we were able to win a Grand
Prix and we were in a way respectable considering where we started the year.
So going into 2023, the expectations were, we're going to close the gap more
and we're going to be able to win more races and hopefully fight for a
championship and that hasn't happened and therefore, after Bahrain, this is
the status quo. And it will be the status quo in Jeddah because there ain't
no miracles in the sport and we're just honest about it. And we take the
responsibility and accountability. I hate the results, because of what we
all expected from ourselves, and so does everybody else in the team.
Q: (Luke Smith – The Athletic) Toto, picking up on mentioning tough love a
couple of times there, I did want to ask about Niki and how much you're
missing him particularly at this tough point, Niki was very forthright,
often an important source of counsel to you as well. So particularly now are
you missing him more than ever.
TW: Niki’s missed all those years because Niki always simplified things to
really what mattered. And so I'm having to think what would he have said,
and how would he have positioned and the two of us worked well together in
that sense that sometimes oversimplification can lead you straight to the
results but there are lots of nuances. This is a technical sport so maybe my
role was to translate it in a way that we actually were able to execute it
in the car design. But this is very simple: the stopwatch never lies, and we
see on the data where we are missing and that needs to be corrected.
Q: (Scott Mitchell-Malm – The Race) Question for Toto again. Sorry.
TW: I'm going to ask some questions to the other guys. It happened to me
too.
Q: (Scott Mitchell-Malm – The Race) There were comments last year and in
Bahrain from the team that you had assessed other design options, but were
adamant that this concept was the best way to go. What's changed? Why is
there now a belief that if you go in a different direction, it will be
better when that wasn't what you thought before?
TW: I think we'd really tried hard to make it work, because the data that we
have extrapolated showed us that this works. And we were proven wrong, very
simply. And you can see that the two quickest cars, including the Ferraris –
the three quickest cars - that have a similar concept of how they generate
performance, and it's very different to ours. And at a certain stage we came
to the conclusion, we got this wrong. Simply, we got it wrong. Why we got it
wrong, we're still analysing because we follow data and we followed what
simulations tell us, in that case we were misguided by those data. And all
of us involved in the decision-making process came to the conclusion well,
we can't continue that way. We really tried to stick to it and we don't want
to, under any circumstance, run in a one-way street saying, ‘we're going to
make this work no matter what’, because it doesn't work. And I don't want to
lose more time so my colleagues, so don't want my colleagues as well. So…
Q: Given everything you've just said, what are your goals for the remainder
of 2023?
TW: The goals: I'd like to win every race starting Sunday but that's not
realistic. The goals are that based on the understanding that we have now,
that over the next iterations of updates and learning, we can shave off a
lot of performance deficit because now we know and now we have all taken a
decision in which direction to go.
Q: (Phil Duncan – PA) Toto, I know on Lewis you said that you're absolutely
confident that he'll stay but is there any part of you that's concerned or
worried that he might start speaking to rival teams just to explore his
options, if he isn't convinced that Mercedes can't return to winning ways?
Or do you think it's Mercedes or bust for Lewis?
TW: I don't think that Lewis will leave Mercedes. He’s at the stage of a
career where we trust each other, we have formed the great bond among each
other and we have no reason to doubt each other, even though this is a
difficult spell. But so nice it will be when we come out of this valley of
tears, and come back to solid performances. As a driver, nevertheless, if he
wants to win another championship, he needs to make sure that he has the
car. And if we cannot demonstrate that we're able to give him a car in the
next couple of years, then he needs to look everywhere. I don't think he's
doing it at that stage, but I will have no grouch if that happens in a year
or two.
Q: (Adam Cooper – Motorsport.com) A question for Franz for a change.
Obviously, a lot of stories around the team in the last couple of weeks,
Helmut made it clear in interviews that the team has to perform commercially
and on the track. Can you tell us a bit about your recent discussions with
Helmut, with Oliver. Are you confident you've got their full support? What
do you have to do to turn it round?
FT: To perform better. Totally easy.
Q: (David Schneider – Hersey Shiga Global Sports) A question for Franz. You
mentioned both drivers need a good car. When do you expect the first major
updates or does it require more radical approach like let's say Mercedes?
FT: No. We are coming up with updates to the next races. We bring something
to Melbourne and afterwards also to Baku. It's within our programme that we
bring to nearly every race a small upgrade.
Q: (Ben Hunt – The Sun) A question for Toto. Lewis has announced that he's
separated from Angela [Cullen]. I just wondered whether you were aware that
this was coming? What's in play to help Lewis this weekend? I just wondered
your thoughts on it?
TW: I don't know what has been announced. Angela was part of the gang for a
long time. I think in every team, whether that is his close circle, or also
in the wider group, you know, this is not a static situation that you can
freeze, because we all develop as people, we develop as an organisation and
if things don't work out anymore, then we need to be honest about it and
then bring change. Angela will always be a mascot of the team. She's the
only one who has a louder voice than a starting car. But, you know, if this
is what he decides, we will always absolutely support him, whatever direct
direction he wants to take.
Q: (Ian Parkes – New York Times) James, Toto has spoken quite a few times
now about tough love within Mercedes. Obviously, you were there through a
period of sustained winning and titles. But can you give us an example of
that tough love that you perhaps experienced?
JW: So first of all, it's never one systematic item, it's more about the
fact that you can have openness and honesty to talk about problems, without
fear of repercussions, without fear of what the implication is on the
relationship. Toto and myself, last year, if I take that as an example, had
many of these conversations, and actually our bond became stronger, not
weaker, as a result of it. But you need to have the environment where you
have no fear about what the implication is on the relationship, but more
that you both want the same goal of moving forward. So that's really what
tough love is about.
TW: It's a shame that that James has gone because now I could say, well,
it's all your fault. And we never blame the person we only blame the problem
but he's gone, so I need to find him in his garage!
Q: (Scott Mitchell-Malm – The Race) A question for James. I think you used
the word ‘reticent’ earlier, just about early expectations for Logan, where
his pace would be at the start. And his performance in the season opener
seemed to maybe surprise a few people that perhaps underestimated him. And
that maybe fit with a bit of an expectation that he was picked for
commercial or marketing reasons, as an American driver. Where do you see
Logan's place and worth in the team?
JW: So, my path for Logan actually crossed several years prior to that. He
came to Mercedes as a sim evaluation [driver] and I was interested in
looking at him because he had performance, especially when you go back to
his Formula 3 performance in an average team. He was there with Oscar
[Piastri] and I rate Oscar also highly. At the time in Mercedes we had a
good suite of drivers. So that was where my relationship with him ended. He
then, prior to me arriving at Williams, Williams funded, it's very important
to state this, his Formula 2 career, so he is now salaried as a professional
driver and Williams funded him because they had deep belief that he was the
real deal. And my reticence came from the fact that prior to that it's
difficult to really judge him. But I have to say, he's now been in the car,
I now have the ability to look at his data, and he is here on merit, and as
a result of Williams investing correctly in him, he's now a professional
driver deserving driver on the grid at the same time. So it just shows you
that my previous life I was wrong and Williams were right.
Q: (Louis Dekker – NOS) Toto, do you consider the budget cap your real enemy
this year? Is it finance? Or is it mainly a question of time, too little
time?
TW: I think the budget cap, in a way, has more positives than negatives. But
obviously, if you're on the back foot, like we are at the moment, it doesn't
allow you to build a second chassis. But I think our fundamental problem is
not building a second chassis or throwing stuff at the car. It's more about
a direction that we've taken that’s wrong. And I think if we… When we change
it now, that's going to be limited by the budget cap, but not in the way
that you would expect, like we're not able to develop. We're still able to
develop but it will mean we need to spend time on a new concept, on new
ideas, and we need to discontinue the old one. So in the short term, it
could mean you make a step back before making two forward, but these are the
rules. They have been introduced exactly for the reason to put the field
stronger together, which will eventually happen. I mean, Red Bull is showing
us that if you do a good job you can outperform everybody else. But for us,
these are the rules and we need to still do a better job.
Q: (Ian Parkes – New York Times) Following up, Toto, is it likely, then,
that you might change chassis completely for next year, because you know
you've got that resource? And are there any plans in place at the moment
that you're already starting to develop the ’24 car?
TW: So when you speak about the chassis, the question is, do you speak about
the monocoque and basically the tub or are we speaking about everything else
around? And I think the monocoque is one thing, and that's obviously there
are weight implications, COG implications, where does the driver sit, more
forward or more rearwards, but I think the biggest gains that we need to
find is how can we extract more downforce all around the track. And these
are the areas we are chasing now, and once you come to the conclusion in the
next few months, that that was the right avenue, then things are going
continue that way. And if we see that is not enough to actually challenge
for the front, then there might be more radical decisions that need to be
taken.
Q: Alessandro, can I bring you in? We've had Toto’s thoughts on the budget
cap. What are your thoughts on it? How important and integral is it for a
team like Alfa Romeo?
AAB: For us it has been really important, as we showed last year, that it
allowed us to be more competitive and of course during the period there will
be a convergence between other teams that are sitting at the back and the
teams that are in front. It is very important. It has been instrumental, not
just in terms of performance, but also to have a sustainable model for
Formula 1. So I see positive things.
Q: (Dieter Rencken – Racing News 365) Franz, based on what you said earlier
on, you seem to have similar issues, or your team has similar issues, to
Mercedes with the car. However, your concept is based on a concept which is
winning at the moment, namely the Red Bull one. So how do you fix your
issues, particularly given the budget cap scenario as well?
FT: The budget cap does not prevent us for development work, you know, this
is included in our business plan. And the question is now: do we go in the
right direction? As I mentioned before, during the winter months, we saw
that, at least on the paper, on a computer, we made big progress in
comparison to last year's car. But all these figures nowadays, as I
mentioned before, I don't trust them anymore. I want to see now with the
next steps that we go in the right direction, that we can improve the
performance of the car, that we are able to do this. And this is a special
design work on the on the floor, brake ducts and all the other aerodynamic
parts. And I think now with all the knowledge we have after Bahrain test and
after the Bahrain race, the engineers should be in a position to sort it out
and to come up with new parts which improve the performance of the car.
Q: Would you describe it as tough love at AlphaTauri, Franz?
TW: He’s only tough!
FT: (Laughs) I don't care about that! I just want to see a fast car. Whether
tough or not, I simply don't care.
Q: (Scott Mitchell-Malm – The Race) Sorry, another one for Toto. And sorry
if I'm being particularly dim on understanding this. You said, you're still
trying to understand why you got it wrong, why the data misled you. How can
you commit to another direction if you don't fully understand that yet? Are
you going effectively a little bit blind to something as a learning
exercise, just to see if that throws up more information than you could tell
on your initial simulations or is there something else?
TW: We do understand, crystal clear, what we've done and why we ended up in
a place that doesn't bring us performance. But understanding it from the,
let's say, scientific side isn't yet, you know, it's sometimes difficult to
find a way back into real performance onto the car, but we have a big step
ahead to what we've seen after the test, in terms of our understanding.
Q: (Adam Cooper – Motorsport.com) Toto, can you clarify Jérôme [D’Ambrosio’s]
new role? Can you say getting more deeply involved in the future? Is he a
potential replacement for you one day, down the line?
TW: Well, Jerome is taking over some of James's topic, so if Jérôme is here
we wouldn't have missed out on Logan, right? So he's looking after the young
driver programme in very close cooperation with Gwen [Lagrue], who has been
doing it very successfully over the last few years. With Gwen’s team we are
looking at grassroots motorsports from the early stages of go-karts, and
this is where Gwen is very active, and he was the one working with James,
and now within the Brackley structure it’s Jerome who has taken that over,
and he's looking at things and there's plenty of plenty of scope that James
did beyond the strategy work. So I see Jerome growing in the organisation,
but at this stage, that's his area.
Q: (Matt Kew – Autosport) Another question for Toto. On Jérôme obviously, he
has existing ties to Susie through the Venturi relationship. Is that how you
came across him and decided he would be a good fit for this role?
TW: I have known Jérôme since a long time, because back in the day when he
was in the Renault driver development, I thought about managing him. So it's
15 or 20 years ago, and then we had a look again at him when he when he
dropped out of the programme. So I've known him as a racing driver, but
never from the human standpoint, and never from the managerial side. And I
think when Susie offered him the option to jump out of the cockpit into a
management role, he took it with both hands and they were quite a good
competitive duo, and Jérôme led it into another year and finished second in
the Formula E Championship. I think he has the knowhow of having been a
racing driver at a very high level. He was a go-karting world champion. He's
been in Formula 1 and on the other side, the skills as a manager. So where
that will lead him is a question; today it’s at a very early stage. He is
just coming in in the driver development part and administrative functions.
And we shall see where that goes.
Q: (Dieter Rencken – Racing News 365) Franz, based on your earlier question:
these misleading numbers, how much have they got to do with the fact that
you switched wind tunnel from your own to the Red Bull one, different scales
and whatever else?
FT: It has nothing to do with this year's car because we changed the wind
tunnel last year. That had a big influence, but not this year. |
