Jody Egginton, AlphaTauri Formula 1 technical chief, trusts that AlphaTuari had the capacity to outscore Ferrari in 2020. He believes that the team had a better car than Ferrari.
AlphaTuari, rebranded from Toro Rosso, scored 107 points on constructors championship. Since the inception of the team, it is for first time to surpass benchmark of 100 points.
The team have been lucky twice to win the Grand Prix. Sebastian Vettel, twelve years ago, took the first victory for the team. Last year, Pierre Gasly took the second victory for the team at Monza, Italian Grand Prix.
Gasly was impressive through-out the season securing points accumulating to 75. His team mate Daniil Kvyat also managed to remain among top-10 for seven races with his best to be on the fourth.
In 2019, the team managed to find itself on sixth position. However, it fails to score the same position falling 24 points of Ferrari.
Egginton on missed opportunity
Egginton asserted that he was happy with team’s progress and it achieved the required level with the AT01 car. However, he feels that they have missed an opportunity to beat Ferrari.
“Ultimately we felt we should have been sixth in the championship,” Egginton told.
“We think the car was good enough for it, but we didn’t deliver on that, if I’m brutally honest. There’s a lot of things that we have stepped up with, but unfortunately we’ve not nailed that feat.
“On the flip side, the car was very competitive. We scored points at an awful lot of races. When we didn’t score points, we’ve been very clear why we didn’t score the points. We understand our car.
“But the fact of the matter is our performance at Imola, when we had a reliability issue, and Portugal and Turkey, where we probably didn’t get it together as good as we could have done, it cost us.
“We scored more points than we’ve ever scored out of less races, and Pierre did a fantastic job. All the other metrics that we track as a team, we’re heading in the right direction.
“With Ferrari, especially with Charles Leclerc, he’s driven fantastically. But we had a faster car and we didn’t manage to utilise it every weekend. They may not believe we had a faster car, but that’s my view.”
