Aston Martin become first F1 team to name 2023 car launch date

Sebastian Vettel to retire from F1 at end of season

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Aston Martin have become the first Formula 1 team to release their 2023 car launch date. The 2022 season has only just reached its conclusion but attention is already turning towards the next campaign as each team aims to adapt to the second year of F1’s new technical regulations.

And Aston Martin are the first squad in the paddock to break cover with their announcement of their AMR23 design. Team Principal Mike Krack hopes the new challenger can make further progress next season after an improvement in the AMR22 late in the 2022 campaign. 

The British team finished seventh in the constructors’ standings last time out but will be desperate to move further up the grid after replacing the retired Sebatian Vettel with fellow legendary driver Fernando Alonso.

Alonso and Lance Stroll make up a strong Aston Martin partnership, with the duo’s brand new AMR23 set to be revealed to F1 fans at their new Silverstone base on Monday, February 13th at 7pm GMT. 

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The launch event will feature a select audience and will be livestreamed for Aston Martin fans across the team’s digital channels. And the team’s technical director Dan Fallows has been impressed with how a talented team of engineers have developed the car.

“What I have seen as a hugely passionate, very talented group of people, some of whom have been here for a very long time, and have a huge amount of experience,” Fallows told reporters.

“So the main thing for us is to make sure we draw on that experience and that passion, and don’t destroy that, at the same time as trying to grow and turn us into a race-winning team.”

Aston Martin have replaced Vettel with the oldest driver on the grid in Alonso, who has joined after two years at Alpine. The 41-year-old Spaniard still wants to win a third F1 title and hopes his new team can match his lofty ambitions.

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“Ultimately winning the championship is what motivates me every day so [I am] still thinking the third will be possible one day,” he said last month. “Maybe not next year, but who knows in the future. 

“And now with this project of Aston Martin there are other things appealing to me – to try to build the team not from scratch but after this year they are hoping [to be] much better in the next few seasons.

“They have a lot of new people in the team, great talent, new facilities so it seems I join in this moment where we can join something together and become world champion one day.”

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