Aston Martin’s performance director Tom McCullough has revealed that they had different doors to Mercedes when using the Silver Arrows’ wind tunnel, to ensure confidentiality. Prior to Aston Martin’s new wind tunnel being completed at their Silverstone base, the British side used Mercedes’ wind tunnel. Mercedes ensured that the relationship between themselves and Aston Martin
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Aston Martin have called for the FIA to improve their “consistency”, following a controversial decision last weekend at the Singapore Grand Prix regarding Max Verstappen. For the majority of this season, impeding in qualifying has resulted in a three-place grid drop per incident; however, these rules appeared to not apply to the reigning World Champion
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Aston Martin performance director Tom McCullough has revealed that the Silverstone-based team still have money to continue developing the AMR23, but noted that they will also focus on next season’s car. The British side’s sudden rise from towards the back to the front has been one of the stories of the year, with Fernando Alonso
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Toto Wolff has added to his list of Red Bull’s unfair advantages, after the Austrian team revealed an upgrade package at the Hungarian GP. Red Bull’s utter dominance of F1 was made clear at the Austrian GP when the team achieved a 2-1 result. Max Verstappen claimed an eighth straight victory. His teammate, Sergio Perez,
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Aston Martin has acknowledged it examined photos of Red Bull’s dominant RB19 car. After a strong start to 2023, the Silverstone-based team has dropped to a distant third in the constructor’s standings. Aston Martin driver, Fernando Alonso, took podium positions in four of the five opening Grand Prix of the year. His third-place finish at
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Aston Martin is dedicating its efforts to strengthening and optimising the Drag Reduction System (DRS) for improved performance through upgrades to their AMR23 car this season. Tom McCullough, the team’s Performance Director, has emphasised their focus on emulating the strong DRS effect that the dominant Red Bull team enjoys. “We have been working on that,”
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Aston Martin performance director Tom McCullough isn’t afraid to admit that Red Bull’s budget cap penalty is “definitely an advantage” for the Silverstone-based team to exploit, with the surprise frontrunner doing all they can to catch the Austrians. After being found guilty of having breached the 2021 budget cap, part of Red Bull’s penalty was a
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Aston Martin director of performance Tom McCullough has revealed that the Silverstone-based team are going to use their big “advantage” over Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes “as much as we can”, following their remarkable start to the 2023 F1 season. Aston Martin’s start to the season is by far one of the stories of the
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After what has been a rapid and thorough recruitment drive by Aston Martin, the team are finally applying the brakes on further signings, with the team preparing to live with the reduced budget cap. Prior to Lawrence Stroll buying the team, Aston Martin (known formerly as Force India), were a team who incredibly applied pressure
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Aston Martin Performance Director Tom McCullough has hailed the team’s former reserve driver Nico Hulkenberg as a “class act”, with Haas having received a “naturally gifted driver” for 2023. Following his departure from Renault at the end of 2019, Hulkenberg moved to Racing Point in 2020 to become their reserve driver, which actually resulted in him
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