AlphaTauri's Franz Tost has not minced his words after a disappointing start to 2023. '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.' F1 SaudiArabianGP
In FP1 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.
"The budget cap does not prevent us doing development work, this is included in our business plan," he explained."The question is now, do we go in the right direction?
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