The Silverstone team was among the first to present its car for the 2022 Formula 1 season, an AMR22 in which they had placed great hopes due to the huge regulatory change that has caused movements in the hierarchical order of the grid.
However, at Aston Martin they quickly realized that their first concept was not entirely successful and even before shooting started working on an “AMR22B”.
This car surprised as soon as it landed in the paddock of the Barcelona-Catalunya Circuit, where they were going to compete in the 2022 Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix, but not because of its performance, but rather because of its great resemblance to the Red Bull RB18.
This sparked rumors and cross-statements about a possible copy, which made sense given the large number of staff traveling from Milton Keynes to Silverstone in recent months, but after a thorough investigation the FIA ensured that Sebastian Vettel and Lance’s car Stroll was completely legal.
Since that race, Aston Martin has remained timid with its improvements and, despite the fact that the first impressions of its renewed F1 were very optimistic, the results on the track have not been very remarkable either.
For this reason, the British team has taken the decision to introduce its second major update package at the British Grand Prix, with the aim of now taking a big step forward after studying all the data collected by the ” AMR22B ” from Barcelona.
Although it might seem a bit optimistic, Mike Krack , director of Aston Martin, dared to judge the improvements that Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll will mount this coming weekend even before going out on track to roll with them for the first time and spoke of a improvement of up to half a second.
“Our car has not yet adapted to circuits like the one in Great Britain. That is why we are going to bring updates to Silverstone. We simply have no other option, otherwise we would be very lost,” he said at the Krack in the preview of the GP. From great britain.
“We hope to gain between 0.3 and 0.5 seconds a lap. I don’t think this will be enough to catch Mercedes [first of the rest]. But we can get ahead of Alpine and the other teams in the middle zone.” concluded the positive sports director of Aston Martin , who is very confident of making a great leap in quality and moving up several positions in the hierarchical order of the grid.
