AlphaTauri technical director’s ‘pessimistic’ approach

The sister team to RedBull – yet just as fierce and intense. AlphaTauri technical director Jody Egginton explains how focusing on themselves is the best approach to follow.

Bahrain testing kicks-off on March 10, with AlphaTauri expected to show some of their true colours for this coming season.

Speaking to The Race, Egginton explained that by the team not getting too ahead of themselves after good results, it keeps them on track – literally – and cool, calm and collected.

Egginton said: “Personally, being pessimistic has served me well, especially since picking up this job three years ago.

“We’re following our path, we’ve got our processes, we’re doing our thing and we get some things right, we get some things wrong. There’s a momentum in the team. We’re doing good things, we’ve got a good driver line-up, we’ve got quite a stable technical group and a stable team.”

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F1 is a highly intense sport, with pressure mounting from all sides, let alone Franz Tost, team principal of AlphaTauri.

“If people consider us to be doing good things, that’s fantastic,” Egginton continued.

“But we’re just focused on ourselves. It’s an approach that served me well. The moment you think you’re [doing well] it’s probably the moment it bites you.”

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