Aston Martin blames FIA: 'That's why all the cars look alike'

Technical director Dan Fallows is anything but happy with the technical regulations prescribed by the FIA this year. There is too little room for manoeuvre in them, argued the Brit in the Beyond the Grid podcast.

There has been a lot of criticism of Aston Martin over the past two months. Many thought it was great that the British-made AMR23 turned out to be competitive, but the car did look a lot like the Red Bull. All that is not for nothing. "We now have a set of regulations that are by far the most complicated in the history of F1 in terms of the length of the regulations – both sporting and technical regulations – and by far the most complicated to actually police," stated the former Red Bull man.

"With the best intentions, we tried to introduce regulations to improve the show. But what we’ve effectively ended up with is a set of regulations that make you design the car a certain way." According to the British designer, it is the main reason why cars look alike. "the reason that a lot of the cars look the same or look very, very similar is that the regulations effectively make you design a car like that." Whether there is enough room for innovation within the regulations? "No, honestly there isn't."