In the round-up: Aston Martin has presented the Safety Car and Medical Car it will supply for use in Formula 1 this year. It will share the supply of official race vehicles with Mercedes.
Aston Martin Vantage Safety Car and DBX Medical Car revealed
The Aston Martin Vantage’s four-litre V8 twin-turbo has been up-rated to produce 527bhp and a revised front splitter means it now generates 155.6kg of downforce at 200kph. It bears the same shade of green as the team’s Formula 1 car, the AMR21, which was revealed last week.Aston Martin is also supplying a DBX to serve as the official F1 Medical Car. As well as producing 542bhp, the DBX has 632 litres of boot space to carry the medical team’s safety equipment.
As revealed by RaceFans last year, Aston Martin will provide the official course cars as 12 of the planned 23 races on the 2021 F1 calendar, while Mercedes vehicles will continue to be used at the other rounds.
Kral ‘clarifies’ comments on Binotto
Former GP2 racer Josef Kral, now a Ferrari GT driver, has retracted comments he made last week indicating the manufacturer’s F1 team principal Mattia Binotto was to be replaced.
“Some of my recent comments about Scuderia Ferrari have been misinterpreted and taken out of context,” said Kral in a statement on social media. “What I said was based on my own opinion and without and real base or information.
“I apologise if these speculations have created any issue.”
Ferrari is due to present the SF21, its new car for the upcoming season, on Wednesday.
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