Aston Martin AMR22

[FittingMechanics]

My understanding of the shakedown is that you want to see if you mounted everything right, are all the electronics wired correctly and so forth. I doubt anyone really identifies a massive mechanical issue that needs a week to fix.

Why do teams do the shakedown earlier nowadays. I would wager that they are doing it because the cars are reliable so no real risk of reduced running on first proper day of testing. Other reason is to get early and quick correlation data - Mercedes was running aero sensors and they are feeding back that data a week or so earlier than McLaren will.

[basti313]

I’m aware you’re being sarcastic, but your logic and therefore your sarcasm are both misplaced.

It IS useful to have a shakedown before packing all the kit and leaving for Barcelona, storm or not.

Yes and no....
I think the core point of the shakedown is to check electronics and heat management.
For heat management you heat the car in the garage standing as far as it can go, then drive at high fuel burning and see where the rad temps go. I am not sure how you can read anything if you drive in the storm, rain with vents fully open (maybe closed inside?). Merc was running with all vents closed, that made more sense to me....

For electronics you best run the car as you would drive it in the test, so optimal time is 2 days ahead of the test. That was done often in the past. Not sure what they read in this regards now...

So generally I would say, that it is astonishing that they hold the shakedowns in the worst weather. There must be more than the classical reasons.

Indeed one of the most common type of problems found (and solved) during shakedown is hydraulic leakages
for what concerns heat management you can only have basic indications.

Yes, that goes in line with electronic tests. I think one would do this 2 days ahead of the official test, not before you disassemble the car for the transport anyways...

[hollus]

Just a reminder:

Livery talk, pretty / ugly, potential championship results... all of those go in the team thread,thank you.
Please keep the car thread for the actual car hardware.

[TimmTurbo]

Quite suprised that there is no picture yet. I wonder if they`ve put on anything new

[TimmTurbo]

The first picture. I could not spot any differences compared to the shakedown spec

[TimmTurbo]

there is two smal winglets on the outer edge of the floor

[MtthsMlw]

I think these are sensors of some kind, you can see cables running towards them.

[Morteza]

Via @f1debrief

[TimmTurbo]

Looks like a cooling fan on the bottom (blue housing). Maybe just randomly put there

[AeroDynamic]

comparison!

[Mandrake]

Is it the colour or is the Mercedes wing so much larger area?

[AeroDynamic]

Is it the colour or is the Mercedes wing so much larger area?

its larger. Look at the outer edge as well at the base wing plane, less taper to the corners.

[FWandE]

Is it the colour or is the Mercedes wing so much larger area?

The Merc photo is just more zoomed in so the whole car looks bigger.
All slightly different angles as well.

[AeroDynamic]

venturi tunnel floor entrance

[NathanOlder]

Is it the colour or is the Mercedes wing so much larger area?

its larger. Look at the outer edge as well at the base wing plane, less taper to the corners.

Yes I agree, the 2 elements look very similar in size for the whole length. Where as the other cars look smaller on the lower element , certainly at the ends.