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Interesting interview of Papa Stroll by A Frankel (one of my fav auto journalists)...
Aston is presently renting time on the Mercedes wind tunnel. As such they've been getting time whenever it suited Mercedes. Like on week ends and bank holidays and overall crappy times... Papa stroll makes the point that it's hard to recruit top aerodynamicists and tell them they'll be running week ends only forever... Also due to time constraints those limited days they had to do run after run after run and regroup later on results...

All this to say their new wind tunnel will be ready in Sept, too late for now but early enough for 2026 regs. They will be able to run whenever within limitations of the rules and hire the best. Also to take time between runs and run again when optimal. Their tunnel being the newest will be able to simulate yaw on the car, the others cannot, and following other cars in cambered situations as opposed to straight line for everyone else... Also Honda.. They will have a development of the best current engine arguably. And Alonso, who by seasons' end will be at 400 F1 starts..

If only they could get rid of Sonny Stroll and send him to Endurance or something... It's probably looking good for them.