Are expectations regarding the car higher because of the new wind tunnel?
Willy Rampf: Definitely. Especially as we had already made considerable improvements to the old car last season thanks to the wind tunnel. The rollout last weekend showed promising results. But we’ll only know how the car measures up against its rivals after the first Grand Prix in Melbourne. Is there now greater pressure on the team to succeed? From the outside we don’t really feel any greater pressure. We generate this pressure ourselves. There’s a healthy tension in the team everyone is doing their utmost to carry the progress achieved last year over to the new season. How has the new wind tunnel affected the way you work? The largest single benefit is no doubt geographical. Our aerodynamics engineers no longer have to travel to Emmen in canton Lucerne, the site of our old wind tunnel. Now they can just go downstairs one floor to work on the model. Moreover, the wind tunnel yields very precise results, which is important in a field where small changes can have a large effect. The ne
