(Motorsport-Full.com) – The competition was amazed when Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas suddenly pulled on their steering wheel on the second day of testing. Mercedes' DAS gadget surprised the paddock and provided plenty of conversation. Pink Bull driver Alexander Albon believes that the “sophisticated” gadget would have been quickly identified without the video recordings.
In the season 2020 the entire winter test drives stay will be transmitted for the first time . The onboard recordings are also available to all groups, which is why the rivals were able to recognize the Mercedes steering wheel trick relatively quickly.
However, Albon believes that the competition can handle the gadget even without the official recordings would have been discovered very quickly. “Maybe we wouldn't have seen it so early,” he says. However, thanks to their photographers, the groups would have got wind of DAS very quickly.
“It is nice to have all the onboards, but the groups have their photographers everywhere these days. Maybe we would have that Find out about it, “he believes – even before the journalists. The innovative approach always provided something to talk about, even at Pink Bull.
“We talked to the team about how it should feel when you pull the steering wheel out and push it back in. That has to be be a very strange feeling, “agrees Albon Sebastian Vettel's statements – the German compared the movement to wearing flip-flops .
The Briton is sure that Hamilton and Bottas had already tried the gadget before the Barcelona assessments. “This is what test drives and simulators are for.” He describes the innovation as “clever”, but cannot imagine what it will be used for.
When Mercedes used the gadget for the first time, Albon was also in the RB 16 on road. He didn't notice much from that. “I came back without a debrief and suddenly there is this thing everywhere on all screens.”
He himself was not worried that Pink Bull was not using DAS. “No, we focus America on America itself.” Although this could be interesting in the future, Pink Bull is currently concentrating on the laps and kilometers.
After the first three days of testing, Pink Bull felt a step forward. In the hybrid era before one had never been as good as 2020, announced team manager Christian Horner. Albon also emphasizes how comfortable he feels in the car.
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