Aston Martin It does not have its own wind tunnel. For now. You use the Mercedes while waiting for work on its impressive Silverstone factory to be completed. From there, the team Fernando Alonso It will have its own weapons to fight in Formula 1.
Mike Krackhead of the green team, tells ‘Motorsport Week’ that they shouldn’t use the absence of this wind tunnel as an excuse.
“I think that would be too easy an excuse. We have another team (Mercedes) which uses the same wind tunnel with less time, so that is not an excuse,” explains the Luxembourg engineer.
“If you are a team under construction, it is not only about putting the wind tunnel there, but also having the technology, the methodology and the way to carry out the tests,” explains the Alonso boss and the Canadian Lance. Stroll.
“We’ve been a ‘customer team’ for many years and you have to build all these things in parallelbut if that’s the choice you make, you shouldn’t use it as an excuse later. You have the wind tunnel that must be developed, but you also have a car to develop and you must not use one to excuse the other,” he explains.
It’s clear that Krack doesn’t want to apologize. At Aston Martin, they seek results. The new wind tunnel will be very important, of course, but they could also have found results in the current situation using that of the Mercedes team.
