Adrian Newey says Aston Martin will do their best to catch up with car development

In a recent interview on Aston Martin's official website, Newey revealed that issues with the wind tunnel as well as when work at the new Aston Martin technology campus in Silverstone was getting up to speed meant they were almost four months behind schedule with their AMR26.

Consequently, Aston Martin arrived late for the Barcelona Formula 1 shakedown with their AMR26 running with black carbon livery, as they didn't have time to paint it.

Aston Martin revealed the AMR26 livery on Monday in an event held at Ithra in Saudi Arabia, and Newey was asked about consequences of the delay with the AMR26.

"It's bound to, to be perfectly honest," he responded when asked if the delay will cost Aston Martin in terms of development.

He then explained: "We got in the tunnel mid to late April, as opposed to January 2 for everybody else.

"But more than that, everybody else has been working on their CFD [Computational Fluid Dynamics] and general layouts and mechanical layouts way, way before us, so we're starting on the back foot and we'll do our best to catch up."

The AMR26, which made its debut in Barcelona, will not be the same car that tests in Bahrain, while the one used in the livery reveal was just a show car.

In fact, all other teams would've been working on upgrades since Barcelona, and Aston Martin is no different in that regard.

Newey revealed: "We've been working on updates initially for race one and now thinking about subsequent updates, which is the nature of Formula 1 in any case, but also this very new set of regulations and a car that's had a very compressed cycle."