There are a few conditions to be aware of when it comes to the latest iteration of the AMR25. It was not wholly conceived in the British squad's brand new wind tunnel; most of the development work with the package took place in December and January in Mercedes' wind tunnel, with the final validation work being moved across to Aston Martin's Silverstone towers before the package was produced.
And if that sounds like a long gestation process, it suggests that the team was well aware of the AMR25's shortcomings at the point at which the design was 'frozen' – when the car is snapshotted in a given spec for the build, and subsequent developments are packaged up later and put into the pipeline.
