AlphaTauri head of trackside engineering Jonathan Eddolls says the team’s tricky AT04 has not been easy for F1 rookie Nyck de Vries to adapt to.
AlphaTauri head of trackside engineering Jonathan Eddolls admits that the team’s tricky AT04 has not been an easy machine for Formula 1 rookie Nyck de Vries to adapt to.The car’s key weakness has been rear-end entry stability, and Eddolls acknowledged that it hasn’t helped the Dutchman, who like the other F1 newcomers also faced a run of tricky street and temporary tracks in the first part of the season.
“It's not been an easy car for a rookie to get used to,” said Eddolls. “Some drivers find it harder to adapt to one with entry instability than others. AlphaTauri had a new rear wing in Austria last weekend, and Eddolls confirmed that a further package for Silverstone is aimed specifically at the rear stability issue.“That's the area we've been working on,” he said. “We have improved it. It's still a weakness, I would say. The package we've got for the next event is probably one of the first that should really start to address that as a targeted area.
“You change aero development, there's like an inertia. It takes time for those parts to get to the car. From now on we should start seeing the effect of the change of targeting that area of the map.”“I would actually say that one of Nyck's strengths is his feedback,” he said. “We could see as soon as he came in that he understood the limitations, the weaknesses.
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