Just as the so-called ‘pink Mercedes’ benefitted from the Mercedes tie-up last year, Aston Martin is now struggling for the same basic reason. “Aston Martin has a new concept, but it’s not working properly because it may not have been worked out by themselves,” Schumacher told Sport1. Red Bull’s Dr Marko agrees that Aston Martin’s Mercedes-like car concept, while helping Racing Point last year, may now actually be hurting the team following the aerodynamic rule tweaks for 2021. “I was of the opinion that Sebastian should take a year off,” he told formel1.de. “But he didn’t do that and now he’s sitting in the Aston Martin, which of course suffers – similar to the Mercedes, which is a very similar car,” Marko added.

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