Aston Martin has a weight issue. While They have been secretive, rumours are that they haven't brought a proper car yet, thus their current car is 817kg which is 19 kgs heaver than the Alfa and 7 kgs more then the second heaviest, the Red bull. A 15kg weight upgrade is coming to Albert Park or Imola directly so we will soon get a better pictureJPower wrote: β04 Apr 2022, 17:17Again, the Alfa is using the same orientation, haven't seen anything to suggest its lacking in a straightline vs the other two Ferrari cars.Just_a_fan wrote: β04 Apr 2022, 10:12Agreed. That radiator installation must be very drag inducing. No wonder they're struggling in a straight line.
That's a huge amount of time to gain just from weight loss alone. We do have to remember that these regs are set for quite a few years, and testing is very short.Ashwinv16 wrote: β05 Apr 2022, 09:13Aston Martin has a weight issue. While They have been secretive, rumours are that they haven't brought a proper car yet, thus their current car is 817kg which is 19 kgs heaver than the Alfa and 7 kgs more then the second heaviest, the Red bull. A 15kg weight upgrade is coming to Albert Park or Imola directly so we will soon get a better pictureJPower wrote: β04 Apr 2022, 17:17Again, the Alfa is using the same orientation, haven't seen anything to suggest its lacking in a straightline vs the other two Ferrari cars.Just_a_fan wrote: β04 Apr 2022, 10:12
Agreed. That radiator installation must be very drag inducing. No wonder they're struggling in a straight line.
Do you have a source for that?Ashwinv16 wrote: β05 Apr 2022, 09:13
Aston Martin has a weight issue. While They have been secretive, rumours are that they haven't brought a proper car yet, thus their current car is 817kg which is 19 kgs heaver than the Alfa and 7 kgs more then the second heaviest, the Red bull. A 15kg weight upgrade is coming to Albert Park or Imola directly so we will soon get a better picture
It's to deal with upper/mid tyre wake without the splefs and bargeboards
I suppose, they still have a larger Merc/RB size bargeboard/strake*; I hope it was just not a concession to the exclusion zone. No one else took this approach except Ferrari although their sidepod flat face is under the inlet rather than beside it. Surely the Ferrari version pushes more air, given that it abuts the floor.
Look as bog basic as the merc floor