Aston Martin made an impressive start to last year’s Formula 1 season, taking six podiums in the first eight races courtesy of an evergreen Fernando Alonso. Although the British marque’s results tailed off during the middle part of the campaign, it still improved on its 2022 constructors’ championship standing by two positions.
The Silverstone-based team is aiming to continue its upward trajectory this year by making a ‘strong evolution’ in the design of its latest car, the AMR24, which uses the Mercedes power unit and gearbox.
One key part of that evolution is a switch from pullrod to pushrod on the rear suspension, meaning the wheel is connected to the car’s body with a rod that is positioned high on the body and low on the wheel. At the car’s launch, the team stated this was done to ‘maximise efficiency of air flow around the rear wing’.
‘We’ve made changes all over the car,’ added technical director Dan Fallows. ‘It’s very different, in many ways. The majority of the parts have changed on it, but it is essentially a strong evolution of last year’s car. We have built on the end of AMR23.
‘The obvious things that are different are things like the front nose and front wing. The bodywork will be different. The front suspension layout is similar to what we had on AMR23, so still pushrod.
‘We’ve inherited new suspension from Mercedes. They give us the gearbox and the structure of the rear suspension, so that has changed slightly as well. There’s a change on the rear, but the front is very similar.’
