Phil Charles: “Max and Carlos did fine”

Published on 23 October 2015 by Niels Hendrix

Phil Charles, chief race engineer of Scuderia Toro Rosso, says after the Friday in Austin: “It’s disappointing that the weather has curtailed our running today. Having two young drivers, we were hoping to get lots of mileage in. Having said that, both Carlos and Max got some inter laps in during FP1 after waiting a little bit for suitable weather conditions, and they did fine. I was pleased to see that their experience has grown to the point now where they both radioed in to come through the pits and do a flap adjust to tweak the balance to their liking.”

“We are now looking forward to the rest of the weekend, where there is more rain forecast, in particular very heavy rain Saturday. Despite the limited running we have done we have collected some information on the inter tyre performance and wear, so there’s some interesting stuff for us to work on tonight to ensure race performance will be ok.”

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