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TECH TUESDAY: Has Aston Martin’s Canadian GP upgrade made them a genuine threat to Red Bull?
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Mark Hughes and Giorgio PiolaThe Aston Martin which Fernando Alonso took to second place in Montreal, just nine seconds behind the winning Red Bull of Max Verstappen, featured a heavily updated sidepod arrangement.
The AMR23’s sidepod arrangement – with its deep ‘waterslide’ channel on its upper surface – was already highly distinctive. The new bodywork retains the same basic layout but with an enhanced undercut in the front-lower edges of the sidepods, while the ‘waterslide’ feature has been narrowed and deepened.
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