F1
Friday 8 December 2023 at 09:39
The AlphaTauri F1 Team, which in close collaboration with Red Bull aims to achieve the best result in its history, will no longer have two youngsters competing.
AlphaTauri’s predecessor, Toro Rosso, operated exclusively as Red Bull’s junior team for a long time: with the exception of Sebastien Bourdais, until the signing of Brendon Hartley, they did not have a single driver who was not part of the energy drink training program – in fact, even Hartley had been their student, many years before. Just.
On the other hand, the fact that one of the cars from the Faenza stable was handed over to Nyck de Vries for 2023 was the first sign of change – even if this attempt turned out to be a failure. This was also confirmed by the team’s general manager, Peter Beyer, speaking to RacingNews365, who explained the team’s new operating philosophy, according to which they will not start two rookies in one season.
“We will definitely not be a secondary team,” declared the Austrian sporting director. “I think as one of our strategic directions we will continue to try to fulfill our role in the junior development programme, but we will do it a little differently. We will no longer be competing with two juniors, we will always have an experienced rider who can take the youngster under his wing and help him develop.”
Their lineup for next year is perfectly in line with this philosophy, as Daniel Ricciardo will be in his 14th season, unprecedented for a Red Bull II team before he signed this year, while Tsunoda will be starting his fourth season with them, and there haven’t been many examples in the team’s history.
Baer also explained this: “Yuki is not young anymore, but compared to Daniel, he is. We see that it has a positive effect on both of them, we see how much Yuki can learn from Daniel, and how much we can learn from Daniel in terms of setups and even strategy.” Sometimes he comes up with an idea while sitting in the room. A car. To be competitive, this is definitely the way of the future.
The team’s goal is fifth place in the league
Bayer also revealed that the change in direction was partly due to external “pressures”: “The shareholders asked us to focus on competitiveness, because this also enhances the balance of the business, and thus we can reduce the amount of their capital injection.” Of course, this is a multi-factor process, and does not focus solely on experimental configuration:
“This also stems from the strategic direction set by the shareholders, which is that we will maximize cooperation with Red Bull Racing in terms of components to the extent permitted by the FIA,” he added. “It was “The mistake is that we did not do that this year, and we will definitely change that next year.”
“The shareholders’ goal is not to win the World Cup, that would not be realistic, they want us to fight for fifth place. While Red Bull Racing will be competing for first place, our goal is fifth place, and we want to achieve that, and it is a serious goal for the competitors, and for us to achieve “So, we have to be at the level of a Formula 1 team. That’s why we invest in our facilities.”
The best championship result in the team’s history with Minardi since 1985 was sixth place, which they achieved as AlphaTauri in 2021 and Toro Rosso in 2008 and 2009 – Minardi’s best result was seventh place in 1991.
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