Phil Charles about the Friday of Toro Rosso

Published on 25 September 2015 by Niels Hendrix

Phil Charles, chief race engineer of Scuderia Toro Rosso, says after the Friday in Japan: “This is another very difficult track for our two young drivers to take on: Max ran here last year in FP1 in the dry but neither have run here in the wet, or in fact have had that much wet running this year. So it was pleasing to see them both settling in well in wet conditions this morning. Carlos had a particularly strong session considering he has not run here before. Both drivers learned the track in these difficult conditions quite quickly. They also managed to negotiate the rivers in sector 1 without any worry.”

“Unfortunately the afternoon’s FP2 session did not run as cleanly as FP1, with several small problems which curtailed running on both cars. Nonetheless we still ticked off a few boxes on the program list when we did run and we have gathered a bit more info on the inter tyres. To that end, we know we have got a little bit of work to do with the car balance overnight if there is further wet running this weekend, mainly to improve the tyre management. It will be interesting to see how the drivers and car are in the dry.”

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