Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu have known as on Kick Sauber to make fast enhancements within the pit lane after additional issues compromised their efforts on the Australian Grand Prix.
Following comparable wheel gun-related incidents on the opening two rounds in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, the Kick Sauber crew had been caught out as soon as extra in Melbourne as delayed tyre modifications value their drivers useful time.
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For Bottas, a very delayed cease of round 30 seconds – which saved him within the pit lane for greater than three quarters of a minute – ended his possibilities of scoring a useful factors end for the Swiss operation.
Talking after the race, Bottas highlighted the problem as one “we have to preserve engaged on” if Kick Sauber are to compete with their rivals for prizes at upcoming races.
“It’s not nice,” lamented Bottas, who finally crossed the end line in 14th place, having began thirteenth. “We all know we have now work to do on these.
“It’s irritating as a result of I believe we had good tempo, a great begin, [and we] ought to have ideally acquired factors with the efficiency we had. It’s robust.
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“The place I used to be [in], with the DNFs occurring, we undoubtedly ought to have come out with factors. A 30-second pit cease will not be actually acceptable, however we’re engaged on it.”
Zhou, who wound up a spot behind Bottas in fifteenth place, echoed his crew mate’s ideas as he described the pit cease woes as a “precedence” for Kick Sauber to resolve.
“I believe it didn’t make an enormous change for my race, however clearly we nonetheless have some points,” he stated. “We have to examine somewhat bit extra what’s in that basically.
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“I can’t actually clarify rather more than what I did. We have to see. After all, it’s some extent that, for positive, is the precedence to repair for the remaining races as a result of it’s essential.”
Kick Sauber are certainly one of three groups – together with Williams and Alpine – but to attain some extent to this point this season, with RB and Haas edging forward within the constructors’ standings due to their latest top-10 finishes.