“I feel this circuit has uncovered deficiencies that we’ve within the automotive versus final yr, and I feel that we’ve a really clear concern which has been highlighted this weekend and we all know we’ve to get on prime of and tackle [that], in any other case we put ourselves beneath large stress.”
Horner defined additional: “I feel on different [tracks], working extra downforce maybe hides a few of the stability points that we’ve, and you’ll see that we’ve obtained a disconnection in stability that simply isn’t working.
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“And as quickly as you find yourself in that scenario, you find yourself [where] you’re tougher on tyres, you find yourself compensating the stability round – to remedy one downside you create one other, so that you simply find yourself in a vicious circle.”
Regardless of their robust performances in the beginning of the marketing campaign – with Verstappen having received the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix with a 22-second lead – Horner believes that the issue existed from an early stage.
“I feel it’s been there for a while,” the Crew Principal stated. “I feel really, actually going by way of the information, there [were] points there in the beginning of the yr within the traits. I feel others have clearly made a step, and as we’ve pushed the package deal tougher it’s uncovered the problem.
“So even if you happen to return within the information, there have been a couple of races final yr the place [it was there]. I feel it’s a attribute we’ve to deal with, and there’s full focus on the manufacturing unit in Milton Keynes.”
