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Aston Martin wind tunnel model already “nothing like” current F1 car

Aston Martin wind tunnel model already "nothing like" current F1 car

Aston Martin was the first team both to unveil a real 2022 car and shake it down on track at a Silverstone filming day.

Chief technical officer Andrew Green made it clear at the time that having launched so early the team was ready to investigate ideas from other new cars, and that the AMR22 was likely to change rapidly through the season.

That process is already well in hand as the team reacts to the lessons learned since the start of testing in Barcelona.

“The car you’re seeing now is nothing like the car we have in the wind tunnel,” said McCullough. “And I’m sure that’s the same for everybody, up and down the pitlane.

“As you’re adapting your cars, and optimising your cars, there’s going to be an element of that car is strong, and it’s gone that way that we sort of half looked at before. So let’s revisit the data we’ve already got.

“As Andrew Green has said we tried with this car not to drive ourselves into any cul-de-sacs.

“So of all the different solutions out there, from…

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