20/10/2005
NEWS STORY
Ahead of this weekend's third round of the A1 GP Championship, Lola - manufacturers of the A1 car - have made a couple of minor changes.
Following the scenes at Brands Hatch and Lausitz, when the pit crew struggled with wheel nuts, and consequently, pit stops became a lottery, Lola has produced a new wheel nut with a longer lead in: The teams will have to fettle the hubs," a spokesman told Pitpass, "but it should be a significant improvement.
There wasn't really anything wrong with the original design," added the spokesman, "however some teams were rushing things and consequently the nut cross-threaded."
Of the problems with batteries, the spokesman said: "There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the two we have used, many teams seem incapable of good 'battery management', putting part charged items on the car.
"There was a problem of vibration with the larger battery," he added, "therefore, a new support tray has been designed to alleviate this."
It's understood that much of the Estoril weekend will be wet.