Aston Martin DBX F1 Medical Car 2021

Aston Martin DBX will proportion the Official Medical Car of Formula 1® duties this season, pushed with the aid of using Alan van der Merwe (41, South Africa). Like the protection automobile, the clinical automobile is distinguishable with the aid of using its 2021 Aston Martin Racing Green paint with Lime Green accents - in addition to the distinguished FIA clinical automobile livery, LED rear quantity plate and roof-established LED light-bar which sits upon the roof rails.

Powered with the aid of using the 4-litre, twin-rapid V8 engine, additionally observed in DB11 and Vantage, DBX affords an excellent output of 550PS and 700NM of torque which launches DBX from zero to 62mph in only 4.five seconds, achieving a pinnacle velocity of 181mph. All this guarantees the FIA clinical crew can reply correctly to an emergency. With a legitimate this is surely Aston Martin, the lively exhaust gadget approach DBX will now no longer handiest be seen, however heard, because it does.

The Official Medical Car of Formula 1® is needed to hold a sizable quantity of device which include a massive clinical bag, a defibrillator, hearthplace extinguishers and a burn kit - and the DBX is greater than ready with 632 litres of boot space.Whilst the indoors trim is absolutely consultant of a client vehicle, the significant rear seat has been removed, and the last 4 were changed with game bucket seats, every ready with a 6-factor protection harness. These offer seating for the motive force, Alan van der Merwe and Dr Ian Roberts - the FIA Formula 1® Medical Response Coordinator, in addition to a Local Doctor, leaving one spare, in case an incident calls for a racing motive force to be pushed again to the pit lane. 

Much just like the protection automobile, displays were established onto the dashboard to offer stay race footage. An extra display screen is used to examine stay biometric statistics added thru generation withinside the drivers' gloves, which withinside the occasion of an accident, affords vital records on their condition. The 'Marshalling System' and the rear-view reflect digital digicam show have additionally been established into the clinical automobile.

The improvement of each those Official Safety Car of Formula 1® and Official Medical Car of Formula 1® become achieved with the aid of using the engineering crew at Aston Martin. Both motors have continued sizeable testing, which blanketed high-velocity sturdiness tests and competitive circuit using on the Aston Martin facility at Silverstone, totting up nearly 15,000km collectively. The motors have additionally been examined in a dyno weather chamber to make sure they may carry out in all race conditions.

Tobias Moers, Chief Executive Officer of Aston Martin Lagonda said "Together with the entire company, I am extraordinarily pleased with the Aston Martin manufacturers go back to Formula 1®, the top of motorsport for the primary time in greater than 60 years and represents the begin of a sizeable new generation for Aston Martin. To see our acclaimed Vantage, our maximum dynamic sports activities automobile, appearing the position of the Official Safety Car of Formula 1 and our first SUV, DBX, perform because the Medical Car on Formula 1® circuits round the arena is a proud second for us all".