the drs. It was the element that caused the most headaches to Aston Martinalready Fernando Alonso, in Baku. On a track that has the longest straight in the World Championship. In a layout, the one from Azerbaijan, which is one in which it is most noticeable in how much top speed and to advance. There it failed. But, luckily and with work, it was fully operational in car 14 for the feature race.
It was like that thanks to the ingenuity of the Silverstone team to put an end to Alonso’s problems with him. Because, with closed park, little they could do. And even with those limitations, they succeeded.
“I can’t tell you much, but we used something like WD40 (a lubricant). The car was in parc fermé so we couldn’t do much. clean surfaces, check all the holes…” said Mike Krack in ‘Motorsport’.
“We changed it for security”
And he continues: “We reviewed everything with the FIA, which has helped us a lot. And we also changed the hind wing of Alonso’s car”.
“It was for a routine check. If you pull all the time on the wing when it’s not moving you put more stress on it. For safety we wanted to change it,” Krack said.
The head of Aston Martin, yes, qualifies the DRS issue: “It was a slight handicap, but in both races it worked”.
“We lost in sector 2… there is no DRS there”
“But when we analyzed everything in qualifying we saw that we were losing in the second sector, that no DRS zone”account.
Now, in brief, Miami: “We managed to fix it. in general. It’s not a drama.”
