How Aston Martin has been "aggressive" with its 2023 F1 car design
The buzzword from Aston Martin’s AMR23 Formula 1 car launch was aggression, as it aims to create a design to suit its drivers and new mentality. By taking development paths forged by others while also exploring new ones, can the car match the team’s ambition?
In the creation of its 2022 Formula 1 car, Aston Martin opted to produce a car that could be theoretically developed along multiple different paths. If an early prevailing wind suggested that a certain direction was particularly bountiful, the Silverstone squad could follow that road and develop around it.
As it happened, Red Bull cemented itself as an early favourite and Aston’s design team had the kit to match it. It earned the team “Green Red Bull” taunts in the process, but it nonetheless reacted to the best design path and helped haul the team out of the rut it began the season in.
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Jake Boxall-Legge Autosport’s Technical Editor. Having studied Automotive Engineering with Motorsport at the University of Hertfordshire, West Country-born Jake's original ambition was to design racing cars. During a year between studies in which he accidentally rekindled a love of writing, he took up a Master's in Motorsport Engineering at Oxford Brookes. Halfway through his master's year, he was offered a place on the Autosport Academy, conducting occasional freelance duties before becoming the press officer for Formula 2 and GP3 in 2018. Autosport offered him a return to the fold later that year to serve as its Technical Editor. His voice appears on a number of videos and podcasts, and can often be found writing about terrible Formula 1 cars in excruciating detail. In his spare time, Jake enjoys baking and blames his failure to make it past the Great British Bake-Off interviews on his tenuous grasp on choux pastry. His dream is to open a brunch cafe - and his willingness to make outrageous puns in inappropriate situations has earned him the contempt of his colleagues.
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