Formula driver Paul Aron is preparing for his first season in the Formula 2 series, about a month away. Aron hopes that with a new car and a new team he will be able to find a speed that will allow him to drive in the top ten.
ERR spoke to Aron in Tallinn, where the McLaren-Mercedes that brought Mika Häkkinen the Formula 1 world title was on display for interested parties. But how close is Aron to royalty?
“It’s hard to say. It’s always a bit unknown, isn’t it? These opportunities come and go so quickly. The world of Formula 1 is such a fast world that you just have to give it your all and do a good job. These opportunities come and go in a flash. You just have to be ready,” Aron said.
“Going from Formula 3 to Formula 2, the biggest difference is that pit stops and carbon brakes come into play. Which might not seem like anything special to an ordinary person, but they are brakes that work at a very high temperature, very high, 800 -1000 degrees. That means that for these brakes to work, they have to be kept hot, and that’s very difficult to do,” Aron said of the differences between the racing series. “In Formula 2 you learn all these complex aspects of formula racing, the transition from F2 to F1 is something unpredictable. This F1 car is still very special. They are the fastest cars in the world and it’s hard to imagine if you haven’t never done sitting behind the wheel.”
After competing in a Formula 3 car in the previous two seasons, Aron made his first encounter with the Formula 2 series in the final stage of the previous season. Now Aron, who will celebrate his 20th birthday in early February, hopes to quickly adapt to the new car and the Hitech team.
“You have to give your best and hope that the team also does a good job on their own and creates this new car as soon as possible. The aerodynamic effect now comes from the bottom of the car, not from the bottom. For this reason it was necessary to modify the entire car set-up, which means that “basically every team starts from scratch. What worked with the old car will not work with the new car,” Aron explained. “Since the cars are set up differently, the way this car is driven and each driver’s driving style also changes. It is certainly very interesting and for me, as a first-year F2 series driver, it definitely has a positive effect, “Because experienced drivers no longer have this advantage. But it is still very difficult to predict anything. The only day we have available in Barcelona it was more to check the performance of the car. We will only know the speed in a couple of weeks, when we can test for three days in Bahrain.”
11 teams and 22 drivers compete in the Formula 2 series. The season, which begins the first weekend of March, consists of 14 stages. Aron admits that desires are easier to formulate than goals, which have little background data.
“The initial plan and goal would be to be in the top ten, because that’s what will change for racing. As long as you’re a TOP10 driver in the early stages, you’ll collect enough points to still be in the At the end, when that speed comes halfway through the season, with the car and the team used to it, then suddenly you can think about victories,” Aron said.
2024-01-28 20:35:00
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