F1 | Aston Martin, Szafnauer: “We will have an effectively new single-seater”

Regulation frozen, but not too much. It is a fact that the new single-seaters will be similar to those of the previous season, but it is increasingly clear that they will not be "the same". The FIA ​​has in fact reduced the rear area of ​​the car floor, to reduce the aerodynamic load generated by the cars and therefore there will be a lot of work on the part of all the teams from the point of view of the aerodynamic appearance (free from tokens).

Furthermore, Aston Martin has decided to "spend" its two tokens on the chassis, which will be all new. A detail that made Otmar Szafnauer, team principal of the Silverstone-based team, declare that Vettel and Stroll's single-seater will in fact be entirely new.

“We will have a car similar to last year but with many new parts, with many aerodynamic developments and we will also have a completely new chassis - Szafnauer's words collected by the GPFans.com portal - We can say that the car will be mostly new."

The declared objective is to settle behind Mercedes and Red Bull, with the teams all trying to recover aerodynamic load after the rules imposed by the FIA ​​on the surface:

“It will be a tough battle for third place, Ferrari will have worked hard to move up, McLaren will have the same engine as us, and then many drivers have changed teams and we will see what effects this will have. Much will also depend on the skill of the individual teams in recovering the aerodynamic load removed by the FIA ​​with the reduction of the floor. It will be interesting to see how it ends." thus the Aston team principal.