Luscion wrote: ↑30 Jan 2024, 02:35
Wolff talking about the challenges of 2022 and getting the car wrong in 2023, What's most interesting to me is him saying because they wanted to be compliant with all the financial regulations, John Owen, their chief designer was more involved into making sure that the accounting side was working than in designing a car and Allison saying you'd be psychotic to be fully confident that you've made a championship winning car at this stage without testing
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/new- ... /10570222/
“In 2023, we knew that there were ingredients in the car that were positive, that we were able to dial out for the end of the ‘22 season. And then different problems came back in ‘23.
“The thinking was like, again, great people, great infrastructure, all the resource that you need, the right mindset.
“But maybe, because we wanted to be compliant with all the financial regulations, John Owen was more involved into making sure that the accounting side was working than in designing a car.
“So put simply, we got the physics wrong. It's a ground effect car. Our tools didn't work as good as they did for all the other previous technical regulations. Physics. Nothing mystical.
“To recognise that all the data that you've previously relied on and all the equipment wouldn't correlate with what the car was doing on track. That has been the theme.
“So now we are basically putting everything that you could potentially change in order to dial out the nastiness in this car we are doing.”
I'd go with pensive.