F1 | ASTON MARTIN: AMR25 WILL HAVE 2026 SOLUTIONS FROM MID-SEASON ONWARDS
Andy Cowell confirms that AMR25s will be equipped with 2026 parts from mid-season onwards to take advantage of next year's regulatory change.
Aston Martin continues in its difficult period. Even in Miami, the Silverstone-based team did not perform very well, although it did bring home four points and settled in seventh place in the Constructors' Championship with 14 points collected so far.
As Motorsport.com had already revealed to you, Aston Martin has decided to use the AMR25 as a sort of laboratory to try and find the right correlation between the new infrastructure - especially the wind tunnel - and the track in order to be ready for 2026, the year of regulatory changes from a technical point of view.
Andy Cowell, team principal and CEO of Aston Martin Racing, confirmed this intention when speaking at the Miami Grand Prix, staged over the weekend that has just ended.
"One thing we are determined to do is to try and improve our correlation. So yes, we will be releasing parts on the track, some of which will be more of a test rather than final updates. You will see that in the coming races. But we are determined to go...".
"There is a lot of effort to be put into the 2026 single-seater, so with the resources we have we don't want to waste them. The 2025 resources we don't want to waste them. And we're really, really keen to make sure that we improve the toolkit that we have and improve the approaches that we use. So I suspect those are the reasons why the season looks different from the normal season."
It will not just be a matter of correlation between infrastructure, tools and track. The AMR25s, starting in the second half of the current season, will become full-fledged laboratories, being equipped with certain components destined for next year's car. According to the Silverstone engineers, this will be the best way to arrive ready for the end of January, when the first winter tests will be held in Barcelona.
"There are some technologies intended for the AMR26 that will be race-tested on the 25," Cowell confirmed. "The only way to know that something is ready to go racing is if it has gone racing and worked. So we are using the 25 car as a way to thoroughly test the new technologies. And we will see that in the second half of the season."
"But we are working on some aerodynamic and dynamic aspects of the vehicle that we want to introduce on this car to fine-tune the tools we have in a relatively young team that now operates with the tools that the big teams have had for decades.
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