The 400th Grand Prix of Fernando Alonso in Formula 1 it ended in retirement. His brakes overheated and he was unable to finish. Mike Krackhead of Aston Martincalled the weekend “disappointing” and asked its engineers not to repeat these problems.
“Obviously It was a bit disappointing… Normally, within the first 10 laps of a race, everything always overheats. Especially on a circuit like this, where you see how the tires, the brakes, the engine and Then comes a stabilization phase. » said Krack in words reported by ‘Motorsport’.
This temperature has not stabilized and the car was unable to continue on the track: “We quickly saw that on the brake side, it was not stabilizing, it was leaving. And then we enter the oxidation phase, which we must always avoid. So we had “We had to make the unfortunate decision of this 400m race. We had to finish pretty, pretty early.”
“I told the design colleagues. You know, we need to make sure 401 is the right one“, underlines the Luxembourger.
Towards eleventh place Lance’s Walk emphasizes that it was the best result they could achieve in the circumstances: “Finishing eleventh with Lance was a good result for the pace we had. With Fernando we might have done something differentwe don’t usually do the same thing with both cars. So that was the plan: go to the race and do something different with both drivers. This time we couldn’t do it. »
“I think Lance had a great race with this strategythat we very quickly changed to medium tires. And I think what helped us, and this is what’s hard to predict, what would have happened with Fernando, is when we can shoot in clean air, because it was cooler than this what we thought,” Krack said in conclusion.
