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Crashes holding back Aston Martin’s progress with 2022 F1 car

Crashes holding back Aston Martin's progress with 2022 F1 car

Sebastian Vettel crashed heavily in both FP3 and in the race, while his teammate Lance Stroll also went off in FP3 and was involved in a controversial collision with Nicholas Latifi in Q1.

He then finished the race out of the points in 12th place.

After the race, the team completed an inventory of usable bodywork and suspension components in Australia and back in the factory, and calculated what now needs to be made so that it has a decent stock of current spec parts for the Emilia Romagna GP.

The Silverstone outfit’s manufacturing resources will thus have to be focussed on replacing damaged parts rather than on readying new spec items for Imola, although the team hopes to still get some of the planned updates to the car.

“We had a very difficult weekend because we had a lot of car damage,” said Krack. “It started already on Friday, we had a small problem on the power unit, which we had to change.

“So we didn’t get so much time. And then obviously, the on-track incidents that…

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