🗣'It's not been an easy car for a rookie to get used to.” AlphaTauri head of trackside engineering Jonathan Eddolls admits that the team’s tricky AT04 has not been an easy machine 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.
“I wouldn't say Nyck is someone who particularly struggles with that, but for sure to try to get a set-up that suits him has been a little bit more challenging with some of those issues.”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.
“The parts that we have on for [Austria] are sort of across the map efficiency steps. So next event should be the first that's targeted this weakness, and then we've got some further updates coming in the season. So that's the direction of the aero development.
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