The revised floor and diffuser package was used by Nyck de Vries from FP2 onwards in Melbourne.
Yuki Tsunoda had to revert to the original version after damaging his new parts in an off in FP1.
Tsunoda’s switch inadvertently gave the Italian team an unplanned back-to-back comparison between the two specs over the full weekend, and the consensus was that the new floor had performed as intended.
“It works on a large part of the things that we’d identified as possible weaknesses,” said Egginton.
“When we were developing the car over the winter, we set ourselves targets for development and other aspects. We achieved some of those targets and didn’t achieve others.
“This update goes some way to addressing that. We started working on this package before we’d run the car. And it actually just provides al …