Aston Martin F1 running ‘at full speed to solve problems’
The 2024 Formula 1 season is shaping up very differently from last year at Aston Martin as… The Silverstone team is far from the positions it occupied at the beginning of 2023.. Those in green have added a few podiums thanks to Fernando Alonso, although with the current car they have no chance of drinking champagne.
One of those who could turn the tide is the technical director, Tom McCulloughwho spoke to the media on the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit, and explained that it was all a “relative game”because the rest are also introducing updates to their cars: “I think that since the beginning of the year we could see some restrictions that are hindering us. Since then we have been working on it, we take spare parts for almost all races, both mechanical and aerodynamics, help cope with these failures.
“The parts we’ve used in the last few races have been much better and this is really the best test,” he said of the qualifying result, where they were eleventh. “On this type of track, I think if we had the car we had at the start of the year, we would have been battling to be, I think, four-and-a-half tenths off the best time in the second quarter.”
Nevertheless, Nobody wants to stop developing their tools in order to get to the end of the course better.: “No one develops, no one stands still. We are relatively happy, but only relatively, because this is not where we want to be, since the two Alps are ahead of us, by a very small margin.”
“There are things that we know we need to resolve, and the good thing now is that when we bring cases to court, those issues are resolved, it’s a relative game,” he continued. “I think we know what we’re trying to achieve, it’s quite complex and that’s the point, both from a mechanical and aerodynamic point of view.”
“We are working hard to release updates to resolve issues as quickly as possible,” confirmed Tom McCullough. “Sometimes it’s useful to look back at old races and compare them to other data, not just lap times, because there are other factors that come into play, and just with pure downforce, everything is moving so fast that it’s just a relative game.” . “
“Our car’s DRS features and performance are now different from last year’s, but that doesn’t matter, it’s just a relative improvement and we’re working very hard in the factory and starting to see the benefits of that,” he said. “So I think from Bahrain to now, and from now until the end of the season, we have every opportunity to make some relative progress compared to what we were able to do in the past.
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