British ultra-luxury automobile model Aston Martin will proceed to produce official security and medical vehicles to the FIA Method One World Championship in the course of the upcoming 2022 season, together with the Vantage security automobile.
As F1 prepares for the beginning of a brand new period with daring, new technical rules, Aston Martin is placing the ultimate touches to that automobile, and the DBX medical automobile. The vehicles will help 12 of this 12 months’s F1 races, beginning with the long-awaited return of Method 1 to Melbourne.
Each the specifically ready Vantage and DBX will run within the new 2022 Aston Martin Racing Inexperienced that was showcased on the launch of the Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Method One crew’s challenger, the AMR22, on 10 February.
The Aston Martin Vantage security automobile of 2021 impressed the Vantage F1 Version, the quickest, most track-focused Vantage to this point and the last word expression of efficiency and dynamism.
Pushed by the FIA’s appointed driver, the vastly skilled Bernd Mayländer, the official F1 security automobile is one-of-a-kind, developed purely for this position by the engineering crew at Aston Martin’s headquarters in Gaydon, UK, in collaboration with the FIA.
Utilizing the educational from the Vantages that compete in GT competitors throughout the globe, together with the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Vantage security automobile has been tailored for the last word velocity and dealing with to carry out its essential position in F1.
An extra FIA security automobile livery, bodyside mounted radio antennas, an LED rear quantity plate and a bespoke, roof-mounted LED light-bar, developed by Aston Martin, mark it out because the chief of the pack.
Contained in the Vantage, the motive force and passenger have entry to the FIA’s marshalling system, which shows lights akin to any warning flags being proven, simply as contained in the F1 vehicles themselves, and it’s properly lined by cameras in and out to offer TV footage.
The DBX medical automobile enjoys an output of 404.5kW and 700Nm of torque which launches it to 100km/h in simply 4.5 seconds, and can convey Dr Ian Roberts, the FIA Medical Rescue Coordinator, to the scene of an accident as rapidly as attainable.
Having the DBX deployed on the most effective race circuits on this planet offers invaluable information for the automobile dynamics consultants at Aston Martin too, with data gathered throughout F1 race weekends enhancing the evolution of the brand new DBX 707.
Equally, the Aston Martin DBX official medical automobile has been uniquely modified to hold a variety of tools, from hearth extinguishers to a defibrillator and a big medical equipment bag. Just like the Vantage, the DBX has been fitted with FIA-approved racing seats as properly.
It’s additionally related to the marshalling system and even TV screens so the physician can see precisely what is going on within the race as he sits, able to go, within the pit lane.
The 2022 F1 season begins in Bahrain on 18-20 March. The Aston Martin official security and medical vehicles will make their debut on the Method 1 Heineken Australian Grand Prix on 8-10 April.
