Aston Martin tech guru Dan Fallows warns Mercedes, Ferrari about F1 car concept change
Aston Martin have been the surprise package of F1 2023, scoring four podiums in five races.
Their remarkable run of form has put them ahead of Mercedes and Ferrari 🍌in the F1 constructors’ championship.
Aston Martin’s rise up the pecking order stems from their ⛄decisio🌺n to change the car concept last year.
Over the winter, they’ve built on it signi𝔉ficantly, allowin🐬g them to move into position to be the second-best team.
Sp🍌eaking 🍬at the Miami Grand Prix, Fallows spoke about the different car concepts in play in F1 - with Mercedes and Ferrari still sticking with their original designs from last year.
“Once you’ve gone down the route of an aerodynamic concept particularly, it’s very difficult to shift fundamentally,” he ꧋said.
“And a🥀lso, you have to really believe that that’s the right thing to do.
“There are conceptual differences between us and Ferrari, for example, 🥃and Mercedes and we’re actu🥂ally very similar in pace the moment.
“So, I think it would be di❀fficult for either of those teams to say that they’ve gone either in the wrong direction or they don’t want to change.
“It’ll be in🌱teresting to see whether anybody does shift 🅘it, but the longer time goes on, the harder that is to do.”
Even though Aston Martin have improved sign🔥ificantly, there’s still a substantial gap to Red Bull.
Fallows conceded that the team has to improve “everywhere” to close the gap to the current ch✨ampions💦hip leaders.
“We need to consider where w𝄹🌺e are relative to the Red Bull but I think there are areas we believe we are relatively strong,” he added.
“We also have to optimise our car for every particular circuit which means there൲ may be sometimes aspects, whether it’s low-speed or high-speed corners, which aren’t quite as strong as some other competitors. But I think the Red Bull as a concept has been evolved for a bit longer than ours.
“We very publicly went to a different concept early last year so we are still developing ওthat. ꦍWe think we’ve made a very big step this year but we still have a little way to go.
“Honestly, I wouldn’t point to one single area 🎃of it, I think we just need to improve everything.”
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