Aston Martin technical director Dan Fallows has reaffirmed his team’s commitment to Mercedes, stating that the team is happy with its components supplier despite the poor showing from the Silver Arrows. While Mercedes has found themselves struggling for podiums, Aston Martin has secured four P3 finishes out of five races, showing that the Silverstone-based constructor
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Aston Martin technical director Dan Fallows believes the Silverstone-based side having more time in the wind tunnel than their new rivals is a “big positive” for the British outfit, who have been the surprise package of 2023. Due to having finished seventh in the Constructors’ Championship last season, Aston Martin were awarded an aerodynamic testing
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has revealed the challenges at the Brackley-based team’s headquarters ahead of their Imola upgrade package. The W14 has been underperforming in 2023, as Mercedes finds itself in P3 in the Constructors’ Championship, having only secured one podium place so far. “We fear that there is something in our car that
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner is “pleased” that former head of aerodynamics Dan Fallows is “doing a good job” at Aston Martin, with the Silverstone-based team currently being the Austrians’ closest competitor. Aston Martin’s meteoric rise this year has so far been one of the stories of the season, with the side having claimed
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When Aston Martin joined Formula 1 back in 2021, it was expected that the team would quickly become regular podium challengers. With Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll in the cars and the team being backed by Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll, it seemed that the team were destined for success. In both of their seasons so
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Aston Martin have been the surprise package of 2023 so far, with Fernando Alonso finishing the Bahrain Grand Prix in third place to score his 99th and Aston Martin’s second podium in Formula 1. The team have poached a number of staff members from the big teams in recent seasons, with Dan Fallows being one of
MoreOver the past two seasons, Aston Martin have slowly been building a super team behind the scenes. The phenomenally talented driver pairing of Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll is supported by a number of highly successful members of staff who have been poached from the big teams. One of these individuals is Dan Fallows, who
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The major changes in regulations last year caused teams to run into a number of unexpected problems and stumbling blocks. One of these issues was porpoising, a violent bouncing that plagued a number of teams on the grid, with Mercedes even sacrificing the first half of the season’s development to stop the bouncing. The aerodynamics
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Double World Champion and new Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso has praised his team for launching their actual 2023 car at their launch event, with the team having opted for a traditional car launch. A theme of the 2023 launch season has been that teams have opted to simply reveal their livery, not their actual
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When the teams exited the garage for the first time last year in Bahrain, there were many different interpretations of the new regulations on show. The sidepods were an area of particular difference, with Mercedes even opting to develop the W13 with virtually no sidepods. Having has a year now to fully understand what works
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