This Monday, the British teams McLaren and Aston Martin unveiled their single-seater for the 2023 season.
After Haas, Red Bull, Williams, Alfa Romeo and AlphaTauri, it was the turn of McLaren and Aston Martin to unveil their single-seater for the 2023 season this Monday. The two British teams have lifted the veil on their livery, before Ferrari (Tuesday), Mercedes (Wednesday) and Alpine (Thursday) do the same, to close this always highly anticipated moment of the off-season. Fifth in the constructors’ championship last season, McLaren still trusts Lando Norris, but Oscar Piastri has replaced Fernando Alonso. For 2023, the car, named MCL60 to celebrate the brand’s 60th anniversary, will be mainly orange and black, with a little blue. Team boss Zak Brown hopes for better results in 2023 than last year: “This year the driver line-up is extremely exciting as Lando, a smart and confident driver with excellent pace, is joined by the one of the greatest promising talents in motorsport with Oscar. 2022 has been a tough season in our continued efforts to push forward on the grid. We learned a lot during the offseason as the whole team works hard to prepare for another year. Under the leadership of Andrea Stella, who took over as Team Principal in December 2022, we have a great team to lead the 2023 season and we can look forward to seeing our young driver pair continue to develop their partnership throughout. of the upcoming campaign. »
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On the side of Aston Martin, seventh in the championship in 2022, Lance Stroll is still there, and was joined by Fernando Alonso, following the retirement of Sebastian Vettel. And the AMR23 will be, from the point of view of colors in any case, similar to the single-seater of 2022, with mainly green and black, and yellow borders. But at the technical level, many things have changed. “We want to get on the grid and start challenging the teams up front – and you can’t do that by sitting back and being conservative. The AMR23 is a significant development of the car that we refined in the second half of 2022 – and we’ve improved it in every critical area,” said new technical director Dan Fallows. It optimizes the solutions that we believe would give us the most performance, and it embodies the common vision that we have embraced and built together over the past few months. We must now focus on delivering an ambitious but effective program of updates for the first race and for the rest of the season. See you in ten days for the first pre-season tests on the side of Bahrain.
