Aston Martin’s immense early-season form in 2023 tailed off dramatically, so a lot depends on whether it has been able to understand, recover and build on the performance that was lost throughout the course of last season.
As has become the norm with these launches, let’s start by looking at the sidepods: Aston, just as it did with Alpine’s gulley-style sidepod concept last season, has taken the foundations of an idea and presented a much more extreme example.
In this instance it’s the sidepod inlet design, as it has clearly gathered further intel on Red Bull’s inlet design, which itself went through a transformative phase last season, and incorporated a radical version of its own into the forward section of the AMR24’s sidepod.
Source: Autosport