Alpine is being one of the most constant teams in its development and has experienced a progressive improvement compared to the beginning of the season. Now, the formation of Enstone anticipates the arrival of a soil with much more charge.
Downforce is everything in current Formula 1 and the new 2022 single-seaters base their generation on ground effect. For that reason, the teams are working especially on improving the floor of the cars and Alpine is not an exception.
The team of Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon In fact, it is preparing a new floor for the Singapore Grand Prix, which takes place this coming weekend at the Marina Bay street circuit. This has been confirmed by his sports director, who does not hide his desire to see the new piece in action.
«We are going to have a new floor for Singapore, which represents a great advance in aerodynamic load»
“We are going to have a new floor for Singapore, which is a great advance in downforce. We will be back where we should be, we can’t wait to get to Singapore and especially Suzuka with this car. It’s going to be fun,” says Alan Permane.
Monza performance anomalous
Singapore should mean a return to normality for Alpine in the last few races, as things didn’t go as expected at Monza.
“We didn’t expect to suffer, I thought we’d be fine. We went absolutely well on Friday and that’s what we don’t understand. In the long run without DRS we looked good. Faster than McLaren”, recalls Alan Permane, who expected a fairly positive weekend.
“Certainly we weren’t as quick as the top three cars, but there didn’t seem to be any big dramas. But we had problems in qualifying. Both drivers said they made mistakes, which is uncharacteristic, so clearly the car was difficult to drive.”admitted the British engineer after the Italian Grand Prix.
“In the race, we didn’t have the pace, nor did we have the pace on Friday afternoon. On Friday, Fernando rode on the medium tire and thought it was fantastic. It was fast I think was shooting 26 mids with full tanks, and we couldn’t get close to that on Sunday. So we have work to do to try to understand what happened, ”concluded Permane, who in Singapore hopes to re-establish himself as the reference team in the middle class of the grid.
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