Q: What improvement in terms of performance can we expect from STR3 over STR2?
Giorgio Ascanelli: “I don’t like to be dragged into talking numbers, but the car will be similar to the Red Bull car at the start of the season so hopefully somewhere between three tenths and half a second quicker than our old car around Monaco.”
Why will it only be the same as the Red Bull car in its launch specification and not identical to the one that team is using now?
GA: “To start with, the two cars can never be identical as we have different engine suppliers. The car is late because we were unable to have all the parts we wanted and the main aerodynamic updates are not available to use this weekend.
Has the fact you have a different engine supplier to your sister team further complicated matters?
GA: “The areas where we might have run into some problems and the recent Ricard test highlighted these, is indeed in terms of engine installation, but they are not down to Ferrari. It is down to us. Both ours and their engines are V8s but the similarities stop there! The engine environment is completely different and of course, we would have liked longer tests with all the systems. But I am happy with what we have achieved so far. Of course, this is an area where we are stepping into the unknown because we have had limited testing mileage.”
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