Aston Martin AMR24

[auem123]

Seems so! I wonder how much they can extend before legality catches in.

[KimiRai]

Motorsport Italy says 3 things (mind it's a google translation):

- Aston Martin brought a major modification of the sidepod ("belly")

- The feeling is that the car was born right and as soon as it was on track it immediately showed potential.

- Aston Martin is the only one on the grid that has no gills along the surface of the engine cover, venting only at the tail.

https://it.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-as ... /10578210/

[Mandrake]

[FNTC]

Generally not ideal seeing the whole half of the car with flow-vis, since it means they are looking at the whole thing to compare to CFD, etc. Also the left mirror fell off. But the car looks all right so far.

[SiLo]

https://ibb.co/FzSzbZY
https://ibb.co/qkDJ0XM

You can see what teams are trying to do here with those sidepod inlet designs. Look how far forward the flow is forced upwards. Meaning there is a huge high pressure area above the floor at the front. Very good sign of here then being low pressure underneath (hopefully).

[KimiRai]

Generally not ideal seeing the whole half of the car with flow-vis, since it means they are looking at the whole thing to compare to CFD, etc. Also the left mirror fell off. But the car looks all right so far.

Afaik last year they did it too, maybe it seems common practice at Aston.

more flowviz, but idk if it might be useful because of the mirror and stroll's antics going off the track

[RedNEO]

Generally not ideal seeing the whole half of the car with flow-vis, since it means they are looking at the whole thing to compare to CFD, etc. Also the left mirror fell off. But the car looks all right so far.

Don’t they have a newly built Wind tunnel? They might need to calibrate that tunnel since it’s coming online later this year.

[organic]

AMuS

[abhi1200]

Driver cooling inlet on Amr24or s-duct
credit for photo albert fabrega

[Egresi Tamás]

Driver cooling inlet on Amr24or s-duct
credit for photo albert fabrega
https://i.ibb.co/MGmtd25/20240221-225717.jpg

Cooling inlet.

[KimiRai]

Not sure about the supposed modification Giorgio Piola mentioned (at least I haven't been able to see anything different so far, could be a wrong translation) but on the other hand it does look like it never ran with gills. Could it really be a gill-less car, at least for most races?
There were rumours back in 2023 that Aston's engineers were thinking about a gill-less car to improve efficiency, maybe that is the case

[quincalla]

Not sure about the supposed modification Giorgio Piola mentioned (at least I haven't been able to see anything different so far, could be a wrong translation) but on the other hand it does look like it never ran with gills. Could it really be a gill-less car, at least for most races?
There were rumours back in 2023 that Aston's engineers were thinking about a gill-less car to improve efficiency, maybe that is the case

It sounded to me like they meant an upgrade over last year's car. But I just ran the article through DeepL, it could still be wrong.

[wiktor977]

[Vanja #66]

High Res flow vis photos. The inlet seems very sensitive but it works, there's a couple of paint streak going down into the ducting right above the bottom lip curve

[KimiRai]