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Originally Posted by Noah930
Question for the Captain: Logan Sargeant made some comment that he's driving the tub crashed by Albon partially because it would take too long to switch the cars back to their original driver configurations. I took that to mean Williams would have to switch the crashed tub back to specs to fit Albon, and switch the uncrashed tub back to fit Sargeant.
OK, I don't get/buy that. Other than the seats and maybe pedal positions, how difficult is it to switch the cars from driver to driver? It didn't seem to take that long to switch Albon into Sargeant's car in Australia.
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Hey Noah, good question,
Pedals, seat, head rest and steering wheel make a chassis specifific to a driver, all are simple bolt on parts to fit or adjust
As cars are flown from to Japan from the last race, the luxury of setting the suspension, dampers, steering, brakes, aero, gearbox/engine stratergy etc isn't an option, time is precious at the track so if the repaired chassis arrives just in time, I'd imagine having to do full set ups from scratch on both cars is just too much work to be confidently done without any mistakes being made or compromising race weekend preparations
I read the repaired chassis only weighs 100g more so not really a biggie on the total weight, what might be an issue is if the un-repaired side is a different stiffness to the undamaged side, worst case it could cause some handling issues so better you let the slower driver find out/have that problem
Hope this answers your question