🗣'Had we known that we had a half hour of FP1, we would have made a different choice. We were making set-up changes on the fly in qualifying on Esteban's car.' Alpine 'on the backfoot' after tricky F1 AzerbaijanGP Friday with upgraded car:
mechanics hurriedly fitted a new power unit and gearbox to Gasly’s car after its late return from its parking spot on track.leaving him on the back row of the grid for Sunday’s grand prixOcon, meanwhile, recovered from the setback of limited practice running to qualify 12th, the team having taken some set-up gambles with the limited knowledge that it had.“Unfortunately we had a hydraulic leak, which started a fire on Pierre's car,” he told Autosport.
Szafnauer said the lost track time was costly as the team was not able to complete its planned programme of homework with the new floor package across the two cars."They were both on the backfoot because, when you bring an upgrade, one of the first things you've got to do is start doing dialling it in,” he said.“And with a new floor you've got to do all sorts of different set-up iterations to get it to perform, and we didn't have a chance to do that, unfortunately.
“So hindsight is a lovely thing here. But with an hour, we thought we had enough time to make the requisite set-up changes. “And then we learned from that, made some set-up changes, got faster. So I look forward to dialling the new floor and seeing where we really are.
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