Aggrieved Aston Martin boss Otmar Szafnauer needs to speak to Formula One’s governing physique about altering the aerodynamic guidelines with the season barely began.
The Mercedes-powered workforce argue that refined regulation tweaks launched this 12 months have focused low-rake vehicles, like Aston Martin and champions Mercedes, whereas favouring high-rake rivals like Red Bull.
High-rake vehicles experience larger on the rear whereas these like Mercedes are flatter to the bottom, affecting the airflow beneath.
“I think the right thing to do is to have the discussions with the FIA and find out exactly what happened and why,” Szafnauer advised Sky Sports tv.
“We as a team have to work hard to try to claw back everything we can but at the same time we should be having the discussions with the FIA to see if anything can be done to make it a bit more equitable.”
Asked whether or not Aston Martin would possibly finally take into account authorized motion, Szafnauer added: “I think we get to that point after the discussion. It’s hard to predict. I think the right thing to do is see what can be done.”
Aston Martin, competing as Racing Point, completed fourth general in 2020 and began the 12 months with excessive hopes of difficult for third.
Instead, they scored one level with Canadian Lance Stroll in final month’s Bahrain opener whereas 4 instances world champion Sebastian Vettel ended up fifteenth.
Red Bull boss Christian Horner, whose workforce dominated in Bahrain just for Max Verstappen to complete second behind Mercedes’ seven instances champion Lewis Hamilton, mentioned he was “slightly surprised” by the grievance.
“There is a process for regulations to be introduced and they were voted through unanimously…” he mentioned.
“It seems a little naive to think that suddenly the rules are just going to get changed after the sample of a single race after the process has been fully followed. I’m struggling to get my head around that.”
The probability of any mid-season rule change could be successfully dominated out, with such a unprecedented measure permitted solely on security grounds and affecting all groups equally.
Horner, whose workforce have been dominant from 2010-13 earlier than the V6 turbo hybrid engine was launched, mentioned it was the ‘nature of the game’ for rule adjustments to shift the steadiness of energy by outlawing some developments and favouring others.
“It’s part of Formula One and the regulations evolve and change and you have to swing with those punches,” he mentioned. “That is Formula One.”
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