David Sanchez (Alpine) : “There are still one or two fundamental aspects to correct for 2025”

Arrived at Alpine Before the summer, at a time when the team was in great sporting difficulty, the former chief aerodynamicist of Scuderia Ferrari drove the spectacular recovery of the arrowed A. The Southerner with the sing-song accent revealed to us the reasons for this turnaround.

Published 18/12/2024 à 11:00

Jeremy Satis

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David Sanchez (Alpine) : “There are still one or two fundamental aspects to correct for 2025”

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How can we explain such a turnaround in performance? The calendar strangely coincides with your arrival at the team...

We brought a fairly significant update in Austin, plus a new front wing that was introduced a few weeks later in Qatar. That meant that between Singapore and Abu Dhabi, the car was completely new. That was a target we set for after the summer, when I arrived, trying to work out what was missing from the car and what we could fix during the season. Normally, by the summer, it's already too late to develop a car during the season, but we were still able to put in place an aggressive development strategy. There was no

Jeremy Satis

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Yves-Henri RANDIER

18/12/2024 at 11:27 a.m.

We see that most of the improvements observed during the 2024 season were initiated under the management of Bruno FAMIN and that David SANCHEZ also contributed in the shadows... when the King of Cheaters "Il Magnifico Flavio" was only content to reap the laurels and take the honors!!

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