🗣️'I’ll be one of an elite few who have driven a turbo-hybrid F1 car!' 2021 Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Award winner ZakOSullivan shares his thoughts ahead of his F1 prize test and reflects on a season of learning in FIAFormula3 📝
How to rate my first season in the FIA Formula 3 Championship is a tricky one. It’s something I haven’t really experienced before. There was a lot of learning. As a team, we struggled a bit to get on top of the car, all year. So, in that sense, there were some difficulties, but I think from my side I learned quite a bit. I was really having to maximise any opportunity with the car; I was strong at some rounds and that really helped me develop.
It was pretty cool driving the Dallara F3 car. It’s a really nice car to drive. I think it’s the right power-to-downforce ratio, especially in qualifying. The car’s got really good aero at high speeds, which you certainly feel. You have to set the car up differently for the race. You automatically run less downforce, so the tyre degradation is higher. That took a bit of getting used to, especially in the early races in Bahrain where you were driving on sandpaper.
Learning the vagaries of the Pirelli tyres - with compounds changing at each event - and getting them in the right window for a race stint was a key part of O'Sullivan's 2022 learning curveI did a seat-fit at Aston Martin last month and did some sim stuff. They were a bit limited on what they could show me because of the Williams link. They can’t send me too much stuff to prepare in advance, so I will get given the driver manual on the morning.
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