After an outstanding 2023 and a correct 2024, Aston Martin It is close to playing back on this season. Fernando Alonso y Lance Stroll They are already content to be fixed in Q2 with which it is probably the last grid car … and the situation seems that it will not improve in the short term.
About this they have asked the team leader, Andy Cowellwhich has justified that the team is turning in 2026: “It is a challenging year.”
Why are 2025 ” pass’? Because all improvement will not serve the new regulations: “The regulation changes for the 2026 season are so deep that There is no possible technical or conceptual transfer from the current car to the next generation“.
“This means: Any improvement that we make now for this car will only be useful in the remaining races. On the other hand, we have the opportunity to sit down with the development work for 2026 that we could benefit for five years, in a stage of stable regulations, “explained the former Mercedes.
That is why this season they are using it as a “test field” to get better at 2026 in which they expect that FERNANDO ALONSor can fight for his third World Formula 1.
“There are technologies and concepts that we can introduce this season and that will also help us in development by 2026. We are also using the remaining races as a test fieldnot as experiments, but as a directed preparation, “he has settled.
