Listen to this article The team has installed a new wing mirror design, which appears to be influenced by some of the designs we’ve already seen elsewhere, whereby the outermost mirror stay (red arrow) acts as a flow conditioner to help reinforce the outwash being created by the angular bluff body of the sidepod below. Meanwhile, the other ‘mirror stay’ also serves as an aerodynamic appendage (blue arrow), this time framing the main wing mirror body in order to smooth the airflow’s transit around it. It’s unclear at this stage if these were planned upgrades or whether they’re simply a function of the Aston Martin monitoring their rivals and quickly assimilating the design in a way that suits its own needs. We’ve already seen this rapid appropriation in play, as Ferrari has admitted that it noted the double splitter winglet and snowplow on the AMR22 at its launch. Fe …

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