In home Aston Martin you don’t want to waste time. The British team yesterday unveiled the car that will be used in the 2022 season, becoming the first team to provide a concrete idea of the characteristics of the new technical regulation. The unveil of Haas and Red Bull in fact served mainly to show the livery of their respective teams and the new main sponsor of Milton Keynes, but they did not provide any information on a technical level. Both presentations took place with some sort of show-car that slavishly copied the lines unveiled by the FIA last year. Difficult to think, especially for the RB18, that it could be a definitive version.
Lawrence Stroll’s team, on the other hand, did not think about hiding and will already be on track today at the Silverstone circuit for the first shakedown of the AMR22. Being the first team to run on a track with the new car was a precise choice of the English team, which wants to accumulate as much data as possible in view of the first tests in Barcelona, which will start on 23 February. “What we wanted to do was a shakedown as soon as possible – explained the Chief Operating Officer on the sidelines of the presentation Andy Green – to check the systems on the car and give us some time between the shakedown and the Barcelona test. This is the reason for this shakedown: so we have time to react “.
Obviously, however, the hope in the team of Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll and that there are few aspects to which you have to put your hand: “We hope to have a good shakedown and that there is nothing to fix – Green added – but since the car is absolutely new, without any reference, and the pre-season tests are really short, we thought it is good to do a shakedown before the first test. Even because the second test is so close to the first race that at that point it will be almost impossible to react“.
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