Phil Charles: “Reliability has been a real positive”

Published on 01 March 2016 by Johan Peeters

Phil Charles, chief race engineer of Scuderia Toro Rosso, says after Tuesday in Barcelona: “It’s been another good day for us. We spent the morning characterising some new aero parts. This is another good job from the factory to get those delivered to us in time after the very busy winter we’ve had. The rest of the day was a nice mix of set-up work followed by long-runs in the afternoon.”

“We are spending more time on these, building our understanding of the car. There’s perhaps still a bit of work to do on the tyres, but all in all we’ve learned quite a lot and the reliability has been a real positive for today, adding a further 144 laps to the team’s tally.”