Esteban Ocon reveals intriguing redesign for his 2025 Haas F1 car
French driver talks changes 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 ‘completely rede🃏signed’ his car’s steering wheel in order to help smoothen his transition from Alpine for 2025.
Having spent the last five years drivin🤪g the Renault-powered Alpine car, ♕winning a single grand prix in Hungary in 2021, Ocon moves to the Ferrari-powered Haas team for 2025.
Ocon drove the Haas for the first time at the post-se📖ason Abu Dhabi test last December and says he “felt a lot of very positive areas” of the car.
To help his adaptation from the Alpine, Ocon revealed on Tuesday ahead of the F1 75 launch event in 🔯London that Haas redesigned its steering wheel for him in 🅷the space of two months.
“There’๊s been a lot of different things coming in, a lot of different ways the Renault and Ferrari car work differently,” he said.
“So, there’s been a lot of positives and I’ve been aꦰble 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 baꦑsically two months to get it done, which was super impressive.
“The whole steering wheel needed a complete redesign for t꧑he clutch paddles, for example.
“That was a big,🦩 big job and I had that in my hands last week, which was incredible.
“The throttle pedal was the same thing, just redoing all the swit♕ches that I want like I was used to having at Force India and A🃏lpine.
“Now at Haas 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 aꦺre some weaknesses that we are working on.”
With three days of testing taking place ne🍒xt week in Bahrain ahead of the new campaign getting underway, Ocon is confident tha✱t 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🌊ryone is,”ღ he added.
“You always doubt, you’re never 100% sur🦩e. But I reckon it’s going to be a little bit more clear from then.
“We know where our performance should be, which is a good thing. We still need to validate it from the sim and check 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 t🌳hey are right it should be an interesting season. It’s going to be close betꦇween everyone, so let’s see.”
Quotes provided by Crash F1 Editor Lewis Larkam
