Aston Martin has unveiled the AMR22 , the car with which the legendary brand will compete in its second season after returning to F1 last year. It will be with whom Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll will dispute the 2022 championship.
Precisely Aston Martin was going to be the first team to present its car, but Red Bull and Haas were ahead in presenting its new livery. However, the team maintained that, unlike its rivals, they would show a real single-seater, and not a render or a model as we had seen days before.
And so, this Thursday, February 10, we have seen the first car interpreting the new 2022 regulations, an Aston Martin Racing whose veil (a gigantic Great Britain flag) fell to make itself known to the world, but which we had already seen a few minutes before in social networks after a publication error of the team itself.
In 2021, on its return to the top flight, Aston Martin competed in the historical green of the Great Britain teams, although it was a decoration that later, on the track, on TV, looked darker than desired and that at some point it could even be confused with the black Mercedes.
For 2022, Aston Martin wanted a “more striking green” that would stand out better on camera, and finally this is the new AMR22, with a lighter and brighter green.
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After seeing the light, the pilots Vettel and Stroll, spoke about the new car, from which they hope a step forward before a new era of Formula 1.
As you can see from the pictures, following the departure of sponsor BWT , who gave small parts of last year’s car a pink touch, the Aston Martin now has lime green, almost yellow, stripes all over the car (including the brand logo).
Also striking is the logo of its new main sponsor, the same as that of F1, Aramco , which combines green with its blue on the rear wing.
At the end of 2021, former director Szafnauer admitted that they were studying what color to put on the new car, although they admitted that weight was an issue when talking about the paint used. However, F1 finally raised the minimum weight of cars to 795kg and Aston Martin has had no trouble substantially changing its livery.
The AMR22 has already seen the light and this Friday it will go out on the track for the first time, when the team performs its first filming day (100 kilometer filming day) with which Aston Martin wants to check that everything has gone well and what more is required tweaks.
Despite the hopes that existed after a very positive 2020 for Racing Point (a team that Aston Martin bought), the 2021 season did not go as expected, and despite brilliant and punctual moments for Vettel (a podium in Baku and a second place that then it was disqualification in Hungary), they were the last of the midfield teams and could only finish seventh in the constructors’ championship.
