In the round-up: AlphaTauri will be buying fewer parts designed by Red Bull for their 2023 car than they did for this year’s car, says the team’s head of trackside engineering, Jonathan Eddolls.
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AlphaTauri to use fewer Red Bull-designed parts in 2023 car
AlphaTauri will be buying fewer parts designed by Red Bull for their 2023 car than they did for this year’s car, says the team’s head of trackside engineering, Jonathan Eddolls.
While all teams must design and build their own monocoque, nose cone, wings, wheel drums and more, they are permitted under F1 regulations to purchase a limited amount of parts from other teams (transferrable components). Many smaller teams make use of this, with Haas purchasing many parts from power unit suppliers Ferrari and Red Bull-owned AlphaTauri buying parts from senior team Red Bull Racing.
Eddolls says that while AlphaTauri will continue to purchase parts designed by Red Bull in next year’s car, they will not be as many as used this season.
“We’re designing a few more parts for ourselves, actually, for next year,” Eddolls told media including RaceFans. “Just because the way Red Bull work, their lead times and their production capabilities is phenomenal. They can leave everything right up to the last minute – which is fantastic.
“However, for us, obviously we want to develop our aerodynamics around certain aspects that we lock in now. So, for example, to take some of their components that we only find out the final design very late in the year, could influence our aero because we’ve developed them around a different geometry.
“Obviously for next year, having the benefit of having run the cars now and knowing the operating window, you can save weight, there’s various things that you can do because we know more about how these cars, these tyres and these regulations will work.”
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