Refinements across the board for the green team’s 2024 challenger, building in the development potential essential to contend throughout the season
JAKE BOXALL-LEGGE
SIDEPOD INLET
Further refinements can be found around the front of the sidepods, and Aston Martin has followed the trend of adding a protruding bottom ‘lip’ on the sidepod inlets. This contains one of the side impact structures, and helps to split any slightly turbulent airflow emerging from the suspension elements from the cleaner air that it hopes to direct into the inlets. The air shed from the suspension is directed underneath that lip and fired at the undercut, increased in size for this season.
FRONT WING
The AMR24 has a shorter nose this term; its predecessor featured a version where the nose extended to the leading edge of the front wing. This has been cut back for 2024, now leaving the bottom front-wing element free to generate extra downforce and the open slot gap can trim back any pockets of flow separation from under the nose. Both Red Bull and McLaren managed to push their nose-wing attachment points to a similar configuration last year.
SIDEPODS
Aston continues to plough its own furrow with its sidepod design, although there are small Red Bull influences here and there, particularly in shapin
