Hart, Verstappen’s ‘Bozzi’
Charles Leclerc at Imola he debuted with a new voice in the headphones, that of Bryan Bozzi, his Performance engineer who has been promoted to track engineer. Xavi Marcos has been relocated within Ferrari and Leclerc’s new Performance engineer is now Johannes Hatz, who arrived in January from AlphaTauri now Racing Bulls.
Yesterday Verstappen also had another voice as a reference than the usual one of Gianpiero Lambiase. As has already happened in the past Verstappen was confronted with Tom Harthis Performance engineer since 2021 after having been Alexander Albon’s Performance engineer in 2020. “Our task is to not miss anything and to understand how to extract more potential from the car by following the data of each tyre, the brakes and the hybrid’s maps,” explained Hart interviewed by the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.
Tom Hart, together with Gianpiero Lambiase and Michael Manning, is part of the small circle of technicians with whom Max Verstappen always talks during race weekends to translate the sensations felt at the wheel into set-up corrections to try to find more performance. “In the end, Max is the best sensor. He senses what isn’t working and is very good at clarifying whether he wants to try something different and how.”, added Hart who was in direct contact with Verstappen yesterday in a rather complicated Friday for the Dutch driver. The coach made no secret that the role of engineers is sometimes rather thankless and to make it clear he chose a football comparison: “We engineers are a bit like goalkeepers in football. Only when we make a serious mistake is it noticed“. Red Bull is expected to make amends today after the difficulties in FP1 and FP2 yesterday. In China the RB20 dominated, in Miami, however, also due to the effect of the Safety Car it bowed to McLaren and Ferrari did not yet have the updates that impressed Marko. “In China everything worked great, and then in Miami with the same car we didn’t have the speed. Here in Imola everything is different once again, from the asphalt to the tyres”Hart concluded.
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