The choice just isn’t a results of an try at a back-to-back knowledge gathering train, however is solely right down to the preferences of the person drivers.
The group took a unique course with the improve package deal, first seen at america GP final month, and has since earned some stable midfield grid positions.
Nevertheless, the automobiles are nonetheless proving exhausting of their tyres over a race stint, leaving the helpless drivers to drop down the order.
“The primary drive behind this was Nico feels that for him the {old} spec fits him higher, and Kevin is the alternative,” stated group boss Guenther Steiner of the choice to run each variations.
“We’ve opted to provide them what they need, we’ve got two races to go and nothing to lose, so we’ve tried to do what we are able to.
“We might talk about gathering knowledge, however we’ve obtained sufficient knowledge, it’s a choice primarily based on what every driver likes greater than anything. It places them in a snug place in order that they’re as glad as they are often with the automotive they get.”
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Kevin Magnussen, Haas VF-23
Relating to the precise challenges of the night time occasion, he added: “The low temperatures are a problem, as everybody is aware of you might want to preserve the tyres increased than the minimal temperature, which is increased than 5 levels, so we all the time have to preserve them a bit hotter, however it relies upon additionally lots on the asphalt.
“It’s a mix of temperature and roughness of asphalt, however I don’t suppose degradation can get a lot worse for us than in Brazil. On Thursday, throughout follow, we’ll get to know the floor, the observe, the temperature after which we’ll know extra.”
Steiner indicated that the principle situation in races is tyre floor overheating, brought on by extreme sliding, and he careworn that it must be solved for 2024.
“We’re studying what does not work, however I feel we have to repair it,” he informed Autosport after the Brazilian GP. “We all know what we’d like on the aero. However we nonetheless have to make it, clearly.
“We’re getting into the fitting course I hope within the wind tunnel. And for subsequent yr, we’ll treatment this, we’ll study in regards to the cooling of the edges, and all that stuff.
“In the meanwhile, we do not have an enormous situation any extra with the carcass temperature, it is simply the sliding, the floor overheating now.
“You study bit-by-bit, however we can not carry on studying, we have to give some outcomes, to be trustworthy. At the least we’re doing one thing, as a result of the opposite automotive simply did not work.”
Steiner made it clear that the tyre situation was nonetheless very evident at Interlagos, the group’s third race because the replace package deal was launched.
After repairs to wreck sustained within the startline accident had been accomplished throughout the crimson flag interval Nico Hulkenberg finally completed twelfth, beating solely the automobiles that had been a lap down from the restart.
“Nico struggled a lot,” stated Steiner. “It is all administration. It isn’t racing, it is administration. It is a sample of the entire yr. It isn’t simply the rears, it is all of the tyres, we simply have huge deg, we simply can not preserve them alive.
“However have a look at the Mercedes. What’s it that some automobiles are doing it good, and a few are unhealthy? The Aston was good, however the Ferrari was degging as effectively.”
Hulkenberg confirmed that his Interlagos race was all about tyres.
“We had been simply behind the entire time constantly, however far-off, actually having to handle the tyres lots,” stated the German.
“If we push, we actually harm the tyres. However for me it is a operate of this {old} tough tarmac which actually appeared to harm us.”