Scuderia AlphaTauri

Scuderia AlphaTauri has denied rumors that it could run a “clone RB19” in the 2024 F1 season due to its close relationship with Red Bull Racing. As part of AlphaTauri’s restructuring agreement with the energy drinks owner earlier this year, the team will forge a closer relationship with Red Bull to become more competitive under its new identity.

This change in stance will not only mean sourcing more customer parts from sister team Red Bull for the 2024 F1 car, but will also eventually bring more aero staff to the UK with a new facility currently in the works. It will appear because of this. Due to the increased synergy with Red Bull Racing, it was pointed out earlier this year that Red Bull could effectively run a clone RB19. However, Scuderia AlphaTauri technical director Jody Egginton denied talk of going that far, saying the number of parts the team would inherit from Red Bull would not be that different. “Since we started Synergy in 2019, the parts we have chosen from the menu have been different and next year will be a little different again,” Egginton said. “Compared to this year, it might be a little bit more. If you compare it to the past few years, it’s probably about the same. “At the end of the day, the customer team has conceptual value to consider. Once you start buying parts, you have to be mindful of your budget. But we are trying to do the best we can, so we will make the most of what is available.” Scuderia AlphaTauri Red Bull Racing There was talk of forging a closer relationship with the club earlier this year, but Egginton doesn’t think there’s anything dramatically new about the process. Eggington says that’s because he has always evaluated which parts to run and which parts to not get. “I’ve sometimes read how it’s been conveyed through the press, but the bottom line is that there are three regulations: competitive, technical and financial.[Red Bull]headquarters are trying to do the best they can. “For a variety of reasons, it’s become a little more open to the public these days, and people are encouraged to look at everything and explore all areas. But there are some things that just aren’t acceptable. “It’s become a little bit more. We’re less competitive, so people say, ‘You’re not fast enough, what are you doing?'” “In 2020 and 2021, the car When we were competitive, it wasn’t talked about as much. We’re sourcing a few parts from Red Bull, but that’s about it.” “Well, we’re encouraged, but we’re not really in control. We’re not doing everything we can, but it’s good that the people at headquarters have our backs and are encouraging both teams to do the best they can under the regulations.”Egginton said that it has not been decided whether the Red Bull parts used by AlphaTauri will be a year old in 2024 or the current model, but the team has already made enough progress with its own new chassis. He said it was clear that progress was being made. “At the end of the day, our aero concept is not the best performing car on the grid, but it’s not significantly different from other cars,” Egginton said. “We know the direction we want to go. There are also some optimizations and other things, but mainly aerodynamics.” “So the chassis will change significantly. But in terms of changing the concept, we know the direction we’re going. We’re also somewhat in line with the direction of the other teams. We just have to be more successful to achieve it.”

2023-10-03 11:09:18

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When Peter Bayer was announced as Scuderia AlphaTauri’s new CEO in June, his hiring was widely acknowledged in the F1 paddock as a good move by the Red Bull organization. His name may not be well known to the general public, but he had a lot of respect in the series thanks to his time in the FIA ​​(Federation Internationale de l’Automobile) under Jean Todt.

The 52-year-old Austrian-born Bayer has had a busy career working in various sports before finding his way into auto racing. As such, he brings a wide range of interesting experience to the task of overseeing the political and commercial aspects of Faenza’s organization. Born in 1971, Bayer has been an F1 fan since he was a boy, growing up watching races with his father on state broadcaster ORF. “Niki Lauda was the greatest Austrian national hero of all,” he recalls. “Austria has famous people like Mozart, but Niki was just amazing to me.” I called the office for advice, but got nowhere. On the contrary, his life took a different turn. “At the time, I was very into skiing, snowboarding and climbing, and I met people who said, ‘Would you like to work with us?’ So I joined the International Snowboard Federation. It was a great experience. We quickly realized that there was a niche that many commercial partners wanted to enter because we could reach a younger audience.” “Snowboarding was a mix of sports, culture, lifestyle, music and fashion. organized snowboarding events and added a music festival, the next step was to launch his own electronic music festival in 2005. It’s called Soundcity and is one of the top two in Austria. It was big.” His involvement in winter sports led to the opportunity to work with the International Olympic Committee on a new project. “The IOC created the Youth Olympic Games for young spectators. I was CEO of the first Winter Games, which started in Singapore in 2010 and was held in Innsbruck in 2012.” Businessman and Vice-President of the London Olympics Bayer entered the world of sailing in 2013 after meeting Sir Keth Mills, and has been involved in the Ocean Masters series and the America’s Cup. After that, he had the chance to get involved in motorsports by chance. “Jean Todt is very close to the IOC secretary general Christophe de Kepper. He was looking for a new FIA secretary general and called Christophe and he said ‘I have the right guy’. I met Jean and he interrogated me for three months because he wanted to see if I understood motorsport.I had to do a lot of meetings and presentations.Motorsport. It was clear that he had no background other than a passion for the sport.” “I had to give a presentation for him analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of all championships, their structure and the assets they manage. No. I think I was right, and convinced Jean and the World Council to choose me.” I received an interesting piece of advice from Jean-Louis Valentin, who had turned to “On the first day he said to me: ‘Peter, your focus is on operations, rallying, the WEC’. ‘Don’t touch F1, you’re going to get in trouble!'” Bayer said. remembers. “It took me three years to get Jean’s full trust. But after three years he handed me the keys and said, ‘You run motorsport and I do the rest.’ “This has clearly opened the door for me.””I have moved away significantly from being an administrator and rubber-stamping job to a more proactive management style.””80% of the time, I think I spent a lot of time engaging and working with championship promoters on the strategic direction of Formula E. I often spoke with Alejandro Agag about the future of Formula E and led the negotiations to make Formula E a world championship.” “I negotiated a promotional contract for the extension of the World Rally Raid Championship and the World Rally Championship, and moved the European Rally Championship and Rallycross into one umbrella with a German promoter. That was my day-to-day business.” , contributed to the definition of the 2026 power unit package and was closely involved in developing new financial regulations and cost caps. “Financial regulation was very important to us. The original idea came from[F1 CEO]Chase Carey and I knew what Chase wanted to achieve with it.” With my business background, I felt I could really do that because, at the end of the day, accounting is a very precise business, just like any engineering job.” It may sound strange to lead a , but we started with a strategic group: Ola Karenius (Mercedes), John Elkann (Ferrari), Oliver Blume (VW/Porsche) and Markus Dusmann. (VW/Audi), Luca De Meo (Renault), Jean Todt and Stefano Domenicali.” “Motorsport leaders came together and said, ‘Well, what can we do? How can we do this? Can we keep it relevant and attractive at the same time?’ “From there, we started to define the strategic direction of the engine, and then the technical details came out. , my job was to make sure whatever the engineers had in mind was in line with our strategic objectives.” In addition to wide-ranging roles in In December 2021, as Todt’s final term as FIA president was coming to an end, Mohamed bin Sulayem was elected with the intention of creating a CEO position at the FIA. Bin Sulayem has its own team and its own a…

2023-08-24 11:11:43

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Scuderia AlphaTauri believes that AT04’s weakness in corner entry was covered up in the previous F1 Hungarian GP, ​​and refrains from giving a clear answer about how Daniel Ricciardo will show the team’s F1 machine. Ricciardo joined his former team on loan from Red Bull to replace the sacked Nick de Vries.

One area where De Vries struggled with the AT04 was weak corner entry, a problem that also plagued Ricciardo in his McLaren days. Ricciardo beat teammate Yuki Tsunoda in qualifying and finished 13th despite being rear-ended by Guanyu Zhou at the start. He said he settled into the car quickly after an eight-month break. But according to AlphaTauri’s head of trackside engineering Jonathan Eddles, the twisty Hungaroring characteristics combined with the high temperatures masked some of the AT04’s unwieldy characteristics, and the jury is still out on how Ricciardo will fare with the new car. Asked if the AlphaTauri still had weaknesses in corner entry, Eddles said before the race: “It’s not really the biggest limitation so far this weekend because the grip and downforce of the tyres have masked it. It’s not so much of an issue here.” “Interestingly, we can use maximum downforce and very soft tires here. The nature of the circuit allows us to run very low pressures on the tyres, one of the lowest pressures of the season.” However, according to Edols, despite the team’s recent upgrades, which include reworked floors and new front and rear wings, fixing the weak corner entry is still a work in progress. “This update addresses that,” Eddles said. “I can’t say we’ve fixed it, but even if[the drivers]haven’t commented, I think we understand why, so that’s certainly the way we want to go.” Ricciardo, 34, has not reported any significant weaknesses or shortcomings in how his car behaves, but added Eddles, who only confirmed that the team needed to add more aerodynamic load to the car to gain a foothold in the midfield. “On the positive side, the feedback we’ve gotten from Daniel so far confirms our general direction and we need more downforce,” Eddles said. “He said that, as we all know, we are a little bit short of downforce compared to the top teams. But so far he hasn’t mentioned any specific big weaknesses. I understand that the car is not a big problem and just needs a little more load to be competitive.” Not only that, he explained that running in clean air gave him more information about the car’s capabilities. “Oh, it was really important,” said Ricciardo. “Maybe it would have been a more disappointing race and there are still a lot of questions to answer,” he said. “In clean air we had the pace and of course we made some mistakes and we can learn from that. I think we learned a lot from the race in terms of knowing what the car likes and what it doesn’t like.”

2023-07-25 11:52:56

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