Aston Martin Formula 1 team
• • Aston Martin plans to challenge the FIA to change technical rules through 2021.
• • The team asks Mercedes-AMG for support.
• • Aston Martin, Mercedes and McLaren voted against the 2021 changes.
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Aston Martin wants Mercedes in their corner if they take legal action against the recent Formula 1 rule changes. Changes to the regulations for 2021 have hampered Aston Martin significantly as they have slipped backwards in terms of performance with just five points from the first three races.
The problem was having to cut off a small piece of the floor of their cars to reduce downforce, which has affected those with low rakes like the Aston Martin and Mercedes more than the others. Aston Martin’s criticism relates to the process in which the rule changes were introduced because, according to Auto Motor und Sport, three teams – themselves, Mercedes and McLaren – voted against, which would have been enough to thwart the proposal.
However, the FIA could still enforce the changes for security reasons.
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Aston Martins 2021 drivers: Sebastian Vettel (left) and Lance Stroll
A satisfactory resolution
Auto Motor und Sport’s report, referring to the word in the paddock at the Portuguese Grand Prix, suggests that this prospect will stay alive, rather than withdrawing from the threat of legal action against the FIA, as the team principal did from Aston Martin, Otmar Szafnauer, recently did.
But even this team owner Lawrence Stroll would only go this way if he could not find a satisfactory solution through mediation – and “is said to have asked his business friend Toto Wolff for administrative support”.
The report adds, “He will try to use Mercedes’ power to convince the world governing body to withdraw the rule changes.”
The problem for Aston Martin, however, is that it will be difficult to prove that the problem is not just specific to them.
Mercedes, its engine supplier and technical partner, has recovered well from a difficult test weekend in the preseason and won two of the first three races by Sir Lewis Hamilton. March. It’s also unlikely that the other teams, including McLaren and Williams, who also receive engines from Mercedes, will have an appetite to repeal the regulation changes.
If Stroll cannot solve the matter to his satisfaction, even with Wolff’s help, he should “continue to think about a lawsuit,” said Auto Motor und Sport.
They conclude by saying that investors in Aston Martin’s highly acclaimed return to Formula 1 after a disappointing campaign start “must fear the plan won’t work” – and that a zero-point move in Portugal did nothing to help To improve the situation.
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