The season started disappointingly for the Silverstone Guard, with riders able to score just 6 points in the first five races of the season, making Aston Martin only 9th in the constructors ’race. It has been known for some time that the barn is preparing for the Spanish Grand Prix with a more serious development package, and it essentially takes a B-car to the track.
Well, on Thursday, the first photos of the redesigned AMR22 could be taken in a boxing street in Barcelona, and the race car was significantly transformed at first glance. It is particularly striking the modified side cabinet, which is a Red Bull RB18 shows a radical solution.
Stable team boss Mike Krack recently put it this way: they expect a lot from the developmentsbut exactly how the innovations will perform, we have to wait a bit longer.
Interestingly, the stable, formerly known as Racing Point, was severely criticized in 2020 for Mercedes he came up with a eerily similar model to his car a year earlier. Although the two stables have a serious technical partnership with each other, the team was said to be called A “reverse design” copied the Mercedes world champion’s car.
It could easily be that Aston Martin is trying a similar one now, but this time they are trying to copy not a Mercedes but a well-formed Red Bull race car.
Even before the race weekend, Andrew Green, technical director at Aston Martin, told the German newspaper Auto Motor und Sport that a lot depends on efficient sideboards this year, and although Mercedes is currently struggling, their solution can be very effective – copying, however, is not easy.
“The goal is the same for everyone: to get clean air to the rear brakes and the diffuser. If you do it right, you can generate good and effective clamping force, ”said the expert. “There are basically two approaches. Some people flow air from above through the side cabinets, this is called a drain. The others, like us, try to get air from the floorboard with an undercut. If I look at the Mercedes solution, the impression is that in theory, their solution is what delivers most of the air energy to the critical points. Once they get rid of the bounce, a very interesting journey can be what they take. However, copying is not easy. To do this, castration must be built for this purpose. ”
Aston Martin is not secretly struggling a lot with “dolphin”Phenomenon, so with new developments, the main goal was to alleviate the bounce. In addition, a lot of emphasis was placed on weight loss, as the AMR22 racing machine is reportedly one of the hardest in the current field.
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