Rival teams are dissatisfied with AlphaTauri’s rapid rise in the second half of the 2023 F1 season[F1-Gate.com]

Scuderia AlphaTauri’s sudden surge in performance late in the season has attracted the attention of rival F1 teams. Red Bull’s second F1 team, which is undergoing full branding ahead of 2024 with new team principals Peter Beyer and Laurent Mequise, suddenly started to pick up speed a few races ago.

Long-time team principal Franz Tost said early in the final race in Abu Dhabi: “I hope the floor works. The only thing that is interesting to me is the new floor and the diffuser.”There were whispers in the paddock. It has been suggested that team owner Red Bull’s aim to increase “synergy” between the two F1 teams has resulted in a highly effective stream of upgrades for AlphaTauri. McLaren team principal Andrea Stella emphasized: “They are now the main players in slow corners.” For the 2024 season, Red Bull and AlphaTauri are set to work together as closely as F1 regulations allow, but at a recent meeting other teams reportedly asked for new rules to limit the scope of the partnership. . Tost says he has experienced similar problems before. “Didi Mateschitz said to me in 2005, ‘Franz, you go to Italy and make this,'” Tost told Kronen Zeitung. “The philosophy was clear: Use the synergies of Red Bull technology to bring in young drivers, who then move to Red Bull Racing and win races and championships. And we’re good at that. “Maybe it was too good. “Because when we won Monza with Sebastian Vettel in 2008, the teams got excited and asked us to build their own cars, which of course was a big challenge. ”