Formula 1 teams are always reluctant to burn through the two curfew jokers they get for a season.
Although there is no downside to using them up if needed, teams also know that if they are not in their back pocket for the end of the season, then that carries big risks. If the points battle is tight, the last thing a team would want would be some unexpected late-night work triggering a final-race grid penalty that could derail all the year’s efforts up until that point.
The story of the team’s 2023 campaign was of a car that was super competitive at the start of the season, especially when rivals like Ferrari and McLaren were on the back foot, but then lost its way when upgrades produced effects which were labelled as ‘side effects’ that left it a bit lost. It had to devote a lot of the middle phase of the campaign to understanding what was going on and testing things to try to get a handle on what had changed.
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