🗣️ 'The engineers are telling me that we will make some good progress, but I don't trust them anymore. I just want to see the lap time.' AlphaTauri team boss Franz Tost says he doesn’t trust his engineers after its F1 car failed to meet expectations ⬇️
In first practice in Jeddah on Friday, Tsunoda was a respectable 10th fastest, three spots ahead of his team-mate.
"Unfortunately, I think it's currently the performance level of the car, because we expected a much better car,” he said when asked about the Bahrain race. "The engineers are telling me that we will make some good progress, but I don't trust them anymore. I just want to see the lap time, because this is the only thing which counts.""During the winter months they told me the car is fantastic, we've made a big progress," he said."Then we come to Bahrain and we are nowhere. What should I say?"Elaborating on the weaknesses of the current package he said:"Not enough downforce.
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