Charles: "Quite an engineering problem to tackle"

Published on 13 November 2015 by Bas Winckels

Phil Charles, chief race engineer of Scuderia Toro Rosso, says after the Friday in Brazil: "A bit of a difficult day for us today. The short runs didn’t look to be our normal performance level so we know we have some work to do in this respect tonight. We did make some changes across lunch so we will dive in the data tonight to see if there is a direction or some clues in those changes that can help us."

"In terms of the long runs it looked like a lot of people were struggling with tyres after quite a small number of laps. On the positive side, I think we were not in as bad a situation as some in this respect, however, getting on top of the tyres for Sunday will be a big focus. Both the front and rear axle are not particularly happy so it will be quite an engineering problem to tackle."

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