2024 Aston Martin | Aramco F1 Team

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3 of this 8 podiums were achieved after the front wing ban. I think this explanation is too simple, moreover I think noone here can judge if a floor is primitive or extremely developed. At least their first floor in 2023 gave them stable DF that the car was very predictable.

And as the flexiwings are back and obviously not banned for 2025, they can build their new car with the same philosophy as 2023 again. Strong in slow speed, with the bending also balanced in high speed. Let's see what Mercedes is doing at the rear, AMR at the front suspension. It's far from over.

It's also true when comparing yourself against you're previous year's model. We clearly see that the AMR24 is 1 second faster than the AMR23, so they did make it faster. The problem, is most teams improved more. AMR24 didn´t improve after Suzuka.

Yes and no.

In 2023 they were much more competitive in the race compared to the qualification. In 2024 its the other way round.

As the drivers and engineers said multiple times this year: the AMR24 can use the fresh rubber very good, with the effect that it uses too much of them in the race...

The working window of the car was much bigger in early 2023 too.

I must admit, there are alot of things I don't understand but that REALLY baffles me.

Someone mentioned that they ran alot of WING last year. I'll add they were super draggy in the straights to boot. If a car is slower in the straights, it's braking from lower speeds, less wheel spin out of corners on acceleration and that results in the tires getting consumed less.

In 2023 they made their speed from low speed acceleration. They tried getting better at high speed but in doing so they went completely to sucking at low speed acceleration, BTW I don't think what they did to make themselves more slippery caused them to be useless coming out slow corners. In summary, the car's traits put it's optimum setup in a window that just consumes tires more. At least that's part of it. If they improve slow speed acceleration , it will cure their tire consumption issue.