Aston Martin team boss Mike Krack has poured cold water on the team's test pace. But that's what team bosses do. So what's the truth of the matter?🤔⏬
Rivals and pundits who crunched the numbers after the three days of running at Sakhir reckon it might be so.
The loss of that reference and the need to get reserve driver Felipe Drugovich up to speed on race preparations in case he has to be called upon for this weekend meant that it was not quite an optimum programme. But it certainly wasn’t far off. Performance as always is the key parameter, and while Aston didn’t figure very high on headline times – Alonso was ninth overall with a lap set on Saturday with the C4 tyres – it was that final long run that was significant.
"Yeah, but these dynamics that you can sometimes get, like someone says it's very good," Krack noted."And then someone says it's good, and it's very good…it's like when word goes around amongst the children at school. So I think we need to keep our feet on the ground. The team was determined to start 2023 with the best possible package, for the obvious reason that development will eat into the cost cap, so why not throw everything you can into the launch spec?
"The main things in F1 are always the same: where do you improve? So you have to work on aerodynamics in the first place, you have to provide good feedback to the drivers, so that the car is predictable, that it’s benign.
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