For one struggling SFormula team, last week's in-season test at Fuji was the last throw of the dice to ensure 2023 doesn't become a total write-off:
With five races down and four to go this year, B-Max is the only team still yet to score a single point. And that’s despite having two cars this year for the first time since the 2020 season.
“Because he has experience of the top cars within Honda, I thought he would be able to give us some hints,” said B-Max team principal Ryuji Kumita. “If he can give us feedback along the lines of, ‘This is what a good car should feel like’, it can be a shortcut for us.”HPD scholarship winner Hyman himself was similarly enthusiastic about Otsu being brought on board, having struggled in particular with qualifying in the first half of the season.
“That’s what we are trying to fix. Hopefully we can understand how to get the car in the window, and then keep it there at every track.” “I accepted the opportunity to increase my experience so I can be ready to race any time, and it was a useful experience for me to see the characteristics of different cars.”When Otsu jumped in the car in the first run, he complained about many of the same things as I have been. And because he drove for Mugen, he has an idea about how a competitive car should feel. He was able to then move our cars towards that. I don’t think the result tells the full story.
While other teams have been reinforcing their engineering systems in recent years, the B-Max set-up still leaves much to be desired. A falling out between Matsushita and veteran engineer Yasuhiro Tasaka last year led to Tasaka’s departure, and his replacement Misashi Miyata, while experienced with GT machinery, lacks experience in Super Formula.
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