Aston Martin is counting on turning the 2022 season around from the Spanish Grand Prix, and it is that those from Silverstone hope to put at least one of their two single-seaters with specification B on the Catalan track.
If the rest of the teams launch important improvements in Montmeló, the British want to go further, because the car will be completely new, except for the chassis and the rear wing, which have already been developed and will be different from what we have seen up to now. Miami Grand Prix.
Thus, they are the first team to ditch the philosophy of the double bottom, to converge towards the inclined tunnels, going in the direction of Red Bull with its fast RB18 . This is a drastic change that is not the result of an afterthought, but the start of the study of the AMR22B began even before the presentation of the car, on February 10.
There was some criticism of Motorsport.com for having defined the AMR22 as a wrong car, but the facts ended up proving it right, since they have barely been able to score points in the 2022 season, although they want to make the Barcelona race a turning point.
The modification begins with the arrangement of the radiators, which will no longer be tall and horizontal, but will return to a more conventional configuration, vertical and inclined forwards.
The novelties under the car allow the shape of the tunnels to be redesigned in the hope of turning a corner, repeating the performances of Imola and Miami , where he managed to score his first points in the championship after updates around the Mercedes chassis and engine.
The objective is to call for good luck for the English team, thus returning some enthusiasm to the project of Lawrence Stroll, quite disappointed with the development they have had and seduced by the idea of a possible entry of Audi.
The sole purpose is to show that Aston Martin has a structure capable, with the arrival of Dan Fallows and Luca Furbatto , of overcoming the disastrous start of the year with a technical group reinforced since January and with available resources working in a useful wind tunnel.
Aston Martin does not expect immediate results in Barcelona, because all the data collected so far is useless when changing the design. It is as if the team led by Andy Green started over again in 2022, although with the intention of being better.
