Team principal Andrea Stella, intense 24-race They wanted to provide enough conversion for a timetable, while also raising the overall experience level of Woking’s core engineering group. told.
“The reason you see a group of engineers supporting each driver instead of the usual two or three is because we wanted to achieve a few goals,” Stella said. said.
“For one, we have 24 races and making sure you can pull out all the races is starting to become a challenge, even on a personal level.”
“That’s for planning purposes, but also for what happens if there’s an emergency and we have to replace one of the race engineers. So we want to create a long bench or a big group of people who can support the driver.”
“Without going into the details of this or that engineer, I am very pleased that this process has resulted in a very competent group of engineers who can interact with the drivers.”
Jose Manuel Lopez, performance engineer for Lando Norris since 2020, is part of this rotation. About this move, the Spanish engineer said, “It's not all about interacting with the drivers. For example, as a race engineer you also need to interact with a strategist. And you have to do it in a minimum of words, you need to understand each other in terms of terminology to convey what you need to communicate.” said.
“So there's a lot of getting used to as part of racing engineering and that's why you see so many rotations because we need to expose all engineers to as much experience as possible. That's why we're doing this, and I'm very happy with what I've seen.”
When asked about Norris' role in the process, Stella replied, "Lando is happy and it's in his best interest to train his own engineers because they're the ones who will keep him going fast and succeeding in the future." said.
“A driver is not just on the receiving end but actually on the lead in this process, and Lando does that very well.”
