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Post by wilmywood8455 on Nov 28, 2023 9:47:40 GMT -8
AlphaTauri began the season with the slowest car and ended it with the fifth fastest, as Yuki Tsunoda demonstrated in Abu Dhabi at the weekend by qualifying the AT04 in P6.It represented a great deal of hard work through the year in turning around the initially disappointing performance. The initial weakness was in slow corner entry stability where a car’s ride height is at its greatest. The drivers were reporting this was limiting how much speed they could carry into the apex. The aerodynamic traits of the car meant the downforce was bleeding off disproportionately as the speed decreased and the ride height increased. In Abu Dhabi last weekend, McLaren Team Principal Andrea Stella remarked that according to their data, the fastest car through the slow corners was the AlphaTauri.
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