“The team was quite impressed with how Colton was able to deal with all these challenges and his professional approach. Herta testing with McLaren Formula 1 team at Portimao this week.Herta says F1's Miami GP 'like a music festival that happens to have a race'.How Herta became a budding international racing star - and America's F1 hope.McLaren signs Herta to F1 testing role: 'Who knows what will come out of this'.Over the next couple days, Seidl said, McLaren’s engineers will be able to parse through the loads of data pulled from Herta’s 162 laps and use their own skills and parameters to decide for themselves how the seven-time Ind圜ar race-winner stacks up against McLaren’s current driver tandem of Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo, as well as McLaren’s Ind圜ar driver Pato O’Ward, who ran a ‘young driver’ test day at Abu Dhabi late last year. Temperatures, Herta added, were cooler than those weekends, and the tire compounds he ran weren’t identical to those F1 teams utilized the last couple years. I had to get used to slowing my hands down with the speeds a lot higher.”īoth Herta and McLaren F1 team principal Andreas Seidl were rather coy when asked how the 22-year-old’s lap times compared to those when F1 visited the Portimao circuit in 20, given how much and how quickly wind speeds and directions in the port city can change the track conditions. It is a completely different feel – a lot of that from a lack of power steering.
Obviously the cornering speeds were higher than you get in Ind圜ar, but that didn’t stick out to me. That was the biggest thing for me, just the straight-line speed, the acceleration and the braking. “Letting off the pitlane speed limiter with all that torque was incredible – even in such low RPMs. By the end of the second day, I was pretty confident in putting a lap together. I felt like I got to the limit (of the car) midway through the (first) day, but that was just separate corners being put together.
“The biggest thing was putting a lap together.
“I feel like I got acclimated to the F1 car quite quickly,” Herta said Tuesday in a media call. But given what Herta called a “quite quick” acclimation to his first time in an F1 car, he doubted there would be any sort of hangover as he continues his duties for Andretti Autosport later this week.
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