Esteban Ocon reveals intriguing redesign for his 2025 Haas F1 car
French driver talks ch♌anges to Haa🦩s car for his adaptation from Alpine
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon has revealed that the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Haas Formula 1 team ‘completꩵely redesigned’ his car’s steering wheel in order to help smoothen his t꧋ransition from Alpine for 2025.
Having spe𓂃nt the last five years driving the Renault-powered Alpine car, winning a single grand prix in Hungary in 2021, Ocon moves to the Ferrari-powered Haas tea🌳m for 2025.
Ocon drove the Haas for the first time at the post-season Abu Dhabi test last December and says he “felt a lot of very positive aꦬreas” of the car.
To help his adaptation from the Alpine, Ocon revealed on Tuesday ahead of the F1 75 launch event in Londo🦋n that Haas redesigned its steering wheel for him in the space of two months.
“There’s been a lot of different thing🤡s coming in, a lot of different ways the Renault and Fe🦋rrari car work differently,” he said.
“So, there’s been a lot of positiv🐻es and I’ve been able to get ✅around with things that I just feel super comfortable straight away and I’ve been able to work a little bit the same I’ve been working the last five years.
“That took basically two months to get it done, which was super impres𒊎sive.
“The whole steer🍸ing wheel needed a complete redesign for the clutch paddles, for ex🙈ample.
“That was a big, big job and I had that in my𝔉 hands last week, which was incredible.
“The throttle pedal ൲was the same thing, just redoing all the switches that I want like I was used to having at Force India and Alpine.
“Now at Haa☂s it’s been able to be done. Also the way I was using the power unit in the past, I’m going to be able to🔯 do the same racing-wise for the [energy] deployment and the cut of the deployment, which is very good."
Esteban Ocon on Haas adaptation
“Obviously there are a lot of positives driving the car in Abu Dhabi, I felt a lot of very positive areas and obviously there are some weaknesses that we are w🌞orking on꧟.”
With three days of testing taking place next🦂 w✨eek in Bahrain ahead of the new campaign getting underway, Ocon is confident that what Haas has seen in the wind tunnel will correlate on-track.
“I think by day three we are going to be able to give a sensible picture, hopefully, of where eve🥃ryoꦅne is,” he added.
“You always doubt, you’re never 100% sure. But I reckon it’s going to be a little b🥀it more clear fro꧃m then.
“We know where our performance should be, which is a good thing. We still need to validate it from the sim and che🍌ck the numbers that we put in the sim were correct.
“That’s always the unknown but I have good confidence that they could be right and if they are right it should be an interesting season. It’s going to be close betw𓂃een everyone, so let’ಞs see.”
Quotes provided by Crash F1 Editor Lewis Larkam
