The team suffered with brake cooling issues throughout last week’s Bahrain pre-season test and its programme was badly disrupted, with Lando Norris unable to complete long runs.
Although new parts were introduced on the final day of the test, the team has needed to rush a fresh design through the manufacturing process at the factory for the first race of the season. However, it is set to be replaced by a further new version.
“Obviously brake ducts are quite, let’s say, complex parts if you look at the entire F1 car,” said Seidl when asked by Autsoport about its brake duct design changes.
“So it was a race against time in order to bring, I will call it an interim solution, to here. It’s definitely not the final ideal solution.
“But we did what we could the factory was flat out in the last seven, eight days in order to provide us with the solutions we have on the cars now, which we have to evaluate now in FP1 and FP2.
“Hopefully, it allows us then to get back to normal…
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