Adrian Newey, team leader at Aston Martinrevealed that drivers Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll will have a limited number of laps to race over the weekend so as not to run the risk of suffering permanent damage to the nerves in their hands.
This measure, which comes just before the start of the Australian GP, was taken due to the intense vibrations caused by the engine of the Honda in team cars. “What did we get for this weekend [foi uma solução] which was tested on the dynamometer […] which significantly reduced the vibration transmitted to the battery,” explained Newey.
“But it’s important to remember that the power unit is the source of the vibration, it’s the amplifier. The chassis, in this case, is the receiver. A carbon chassis is a naturally rigid structure with very little damping, so we haven’t made any progress in transmitting that vibration to the chassis.”
“We will have to greatly limit the number of laps we take in the race until we identify the source of this vibration and manage to reduce it,” he added in the interview.
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Alonso hopes he won’t be able to do more than 25 consecutive laps with the AMR26 without running the risk of nerve damage in his hands, while Stroll should have an even smaller number of laps, just 15 laps.
The representative of Honda Racing, Koji Watanabeemphasized that “engineers are working to develop and evaluate various countermeasures for the issues detected during pre-season testing” held in Bahrain in February.
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