Aston Martin have warned about the restrictions of the cost cap after Mercedes followed in their footsteps with a change in philosophy. Mercedes AstonMartin F1
The first team to change concepts in the ground effect aerodynamic era, Aston Martin’s Tom McCullough has revealed the downwash design was actually “worse” on paper only to prove to be better on the track.
The FIA cleared Aston Martin of any suspicion and declared the revised car to be entirely their own IP with Aston Martin saying they’d already been working on the Red Bull-esque concept back in September of the previous year. “In the development phase of the ’22 car, we very much went two different routes and then one route we parked and another seemed to be really good,” Aston Martin performance director McCullough said as per The Race.
“Then we went back to the other philosophy, which on paper was worse but when you put it to the car, the first time we ran it in Barcelona, we had no porpoising. And from then you started learning and tuning.Fernando Alonso ‘prepared for anything’ as rain threatens Canadian GP weekend It’s a lesson that Mercedes are learning today with the Brackley squad having introduced a B-spec car earlier this season, one that is in keeping with the Red Bull and Aston Martin downwash concept.
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