After finding some loopholes in the Formula One regulations, Aston Martin is happy to admit some “clever” ideas for its new car for 2023, but these probably pale into insignificance compared to the alleged budget cap trickery at play.
As Aston Martin gears up to reveal the AMR23 at the Silverstone factory on February 13, chief technical director Eric Blandin hinted that the team have implemented some interesting ideas.
“We’ve put some clever innovations into the new car – they’re the icing on the cake,” he says in an interview published on the Aston Martin website. “They’re a nice-to-have, but not a must-have.”
“It’s great when you find a little loophole and you can use it to your advantage. But it’s not often that you can build an entire car around it.”
Perhaps a hint at the real work at play behind closed doors at the Silverstone based team, the technical director happy to admit engineering loopholes publically.
“Instead, it’s important to get the basics right, and then you can add things. When you start a new car project, you have to find out what the limitations of the previous year were and how you can overcome them with the new design”.
“You have to determine the architecture that has the most potential for the future. If you follow the wrong concept, you can limit yourself and run out of ways to develop. And that’s a very difficult situation to get out of.”
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