Aston Martin concedes that F1 car feedback isn’t assisting its racers

Mike Krack, the CEO of Aston Martin Formula One, concedes that the squad needs to develop a racecar that offers its racers a stronger sense of control.

Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll both crashed heavily during the Australian Grand Prix weekend, with the German colliding with the walls in both practise and the race.

Following that, the squad breezed through Imola, with both racers placing in the top ten, thanks to improvements to increase steering wheel feel on the AMR22.

Nevertheless, the team is still working to resolve the problem with a series of updates.

“We have three main points that we are working on,” said Krack. “And one is aero, the most important one, the second one is car weight, very important as well. And the third one is how can we provide better feedback to our drivers.

“That goes into the suspension, it goes into steering, and these kinds of things, the whole set-up of the car. We need to try and give the drivers a better feel for the car, so that they can extract more from it.

“This is also why I think we had so many incidents at various tracks, like for example, Melbourne, when we say our drivers went off quite a lot, this is not normal. I mean, drivers of this quality don’t go off all the time.

“So I think we made a small step [in Imola] already by some small updates, and we are looking forward to bring more.”

He added: “I think a driver like Sebastian should not be racing for P18 or P16. I think after this weekend, he maybe gets a bit more passion and joy to drive.

“But it’s also up to us to give him to give him a proper car to be able to do what his level is.”

Vettel admitted that the situation in Imola had improved, but he emphasized that more improvement was needed.

“We didn’t put anything on for performance,” he said after finishing eighth at Imola. “We suffered an issue with the steering feeling. And we were able to improve it slightly for this race. But it’s still a handful.

“I think if you watch the onboard our car is very difficult to drive and even down the straights, you need to be focused. So yeah, it’s what it is.”

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