RB is about to begin the Austrian Grand Prix weekend with its System 1 vehicles working in cut up specs to know why its Spain improve package deal did not ship.
The Italian squad sought to consolidate its sixth place within the constructors’ championship and shut the hole to Aston Martin within the factors with its wide-ranging updates.
The crew added revised sidepods and a brand new engine cowl to the VCARB 01, together with a brand new rear wing and ground, in a bid to extract extra efficiency over the triple-header.
However the upgrades failed to deliver the hoped-for step at Barcelona; Daniel Ricciardo completed fifteenth and Yuki Tsunoda was nineteenth because the crew failed to attain.
Talking in regards to the plan for Austria’s dash weekend, Ricciardo defined that the crew wanted to discover the brand new components additional.
In apply, he’s anticipated to run a handful of the brand new components, with Tsunoda working others by means of comparability, blended with a sequence of latest components lined up for the Crimson Bull Ring spherical.
“There are nonetheless some questions for positive, however are we satisfied that the improve was a flop? No, we’re not,” Ricciardo stated.
“Yuki and I are going to begin with totally different set-ups. It is a mixture of every thing and since we’re nonetheless attempting to determine it out.
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“We’ll begin totally different [Friday] morning and hopefully be taught a bit from apply after which sort of merge for the dash quali.
“However yeah, we’re not chucking something within the bin but; there may be nonetheless no agency conclusions I might say.
“It’s kind of more durable now clearly on a dash weekend, however now we have to maintain attempting to plug away at it.
“It’s kind of of a combination. There may be definitely some {old} bits on one and no matter, however it’s not similar to for like.
“As a result of there’s even some new bits I believe, which we’re each going to get somewhat piece of.”
Tsunoda revealed that the Spanish GP information confirmed the crew what it anticipated from the brand new components, however in the end couldn’t account for the general lack of efficiency.
He felt that it was a “little bit of a thriller” that there was a disconnect between the info and the efficiency, and hoped for a transparent reply to emerge after the only apply session on the Crimson Bull Ring.
“I hope I’ve a transparent rationalization into this week, however clearly the crew is digging into that drawback very laborious,” the Japanese driver stated.
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“We nonetheless see what we wished to see on the info after the race, however by some means it is not performing nicely.
“We noticed a few issues that may trigger it, however there is no nonetheless clear reply, in order that’s a little bit of a thriller for us.
“Clearly [there were] a few issues that we may have finished higher on the set-up aspect or no matter.
“However [it] nonetheless would not clarify why we misplaced as a lot as that in comparison with earlier races.”