Crashes Stroll and Vettel cause delay in updates Aston Martin

For Aston Martin, the start of 2022 has been anything but plain sailing. The team from the United Kingdom is not getting anywhere and on top of that, Lance Stroll and to a slightly lesser extent, Sebastian Vettel have suffered damage in recent weekends. That damage has consequences for the rest of the season.

As is well known, all teams have to work with a budget ceiling. For that reason certain choices have to be made about what to develop of the car and whatnot, but crashes also play a role in this. The production of spare parts is also included in the budget, but after three races Aston Martin is already high up in the tree as far as these limits apply. 

Aston Martin dilemma

"I'm sure everyone has counted the number of front wings and suspension parts that were damaged during our race," team boss Mike Krack told Auto, Motor und Sport. "It's easy to calculate how much we need for Imola. The question now is how much capacity we use to develop the car and how much we use to produce spare parts. We have been having these discussions internally since Saturday."

According to the German medium, the last available suspension parts were on the front left side of the cars on Sunday. Spare parts are a must within Formula 1, because otherwise, a team cannot be in action for the rest of a Grand Prix weekend. At the same time, updates are also desperately needed, because with the current car it has proven to be nigh on impossible to drive in the points.