Aston Martin<\/a>, Newey opens up on the design process of the AMR26.<\/p>\n\u201cI never look at any of my designs as aggressive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI just get on with things and pursue what we feel is the right direction.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe direction we’ve taken could certainly be interpreted as aggressive.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s got quite a few features that haven’t necessarily been done before. Does that make it aggressive? Possibly. Possibly not.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cThe car is tightly packaged.<\/p>\n
\u201cMuch more tightly packaged than I believe has been attempted at Aston Martin Aramco before.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis has required a very close working relationship with the mechanical designers to achieve the aerodynamic shapes we wanted.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I have to say that all the mechanical designers here have really embraced that philosophy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt hasn’t made their life easy, quite the opposite, but they’ve really risen to the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian Newey details development headaches of 2026 F1 car<\/p>\n
Newey admits the AMR26 project was \u201cfour months\u201d behind its rivals due to not being able to get a model in the wind tunnel until April, while he only joined the team last March.<\/p>\n
\u201c2026 is probably the first time in the history of F1 that the power unit regulations and chassis regulations have changed at the same time.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt’s a completely new set of rules, which is a big challenge for all the teams, but perhaps more so for us.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe AMR Technology Campus is still evolving, the CoreWeave Wind Tunnel wasn’t on song until April, and I only joined the team last March, so we’ve started from behind, in truth.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s been a very compressed timescale and an extremely busy 10 months.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reality is that we didn\u2019t get a model of the ’26 car into the wind tunnel until mid-April, whereas most, if not all of our rivals, would have had a model in the wind tunnel from the moment the 2026 aero testing ban ended at the beginning of January last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat put us on the back foot by about four months, which has meant a very, very compressed research and design cycle.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe car only came together at the last minute, which is why we were fighting to make it to the Barcelona shakedown.\u201d<\/p>\n
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