It's all a big wind-up for the 2026 season. Honda, AMR, Alonso, ....,. The new regs are a good opportunity to reset.
With the new wind tunnel, on the other hand, which will be built in the third plant at Silverstone currently under construction, there will be a path that will allow the team to significantly speed up all procedures. First of all, in the third plant not only the wind tunnel will be born, but also the composites department that will be developed in several sectors, starting from the "raw" materials up to the modeling of the various projects that will have to be tested. In this way, the wind tunnel and the various specialized departments will be directly connected, ensuring greater operational flexibility.
Similarly, the new simulator will also guarantee a step forward compared to the current one. In recent years, teams have invested significantly, especially before the introduction of the budget cap, to purchase new technologies in step with the times. Many teams, for example, have invested in new simulators, such as Ferrari and Sauber, since the basic structures were now more than a few years behind them. A path also followed by Aston Martin, which has also decided to guarantee a new simulator that allows for much more accurate detections, especially at the hardware level, considering that this type of detection requires high-frequency inputs and responses to understand, for example, reactions based on the roughness of the asphalt.
