Aston Martin lived in Miami His worst great prize since he began his ambitious project in Formula 1. There are no possible hot cloths. Fernando Alonso was 15th and Lance Stroll, 16th, just ahead of the pilots they left. Without points, without rhythm and – the most worrying – without short -term responses. It was a reality bath for a structure that has been in free fall from the eight podiums of Alonso in 2023.
“The result reflects the current performance level of the car, and we are not happy with it,” he admitted Andy CowellTeam Head of the British team, at the end of the race. “We are analyzing all the information we have of the pilots and data, trying to understand. That is our general evaluation today.”
A career without excuses
And there were no possible excuses. THE URBAN CIRCUIT OF Miami It has a balanced mixture of fast and slow curves, without especially conflicting areas for any car. Cowell He made it clear: “It is a rather representative layout. Right now we do not have a specific area where we highlight negatively: There are many problems to solve. Some have improved, others not. But it is another event that we get data to feed our simulation tools. “
While Alonso continues to squeeze the impossible of a limited car – miracles in the qualy sprint and it was 11th in Yeda – the AMR25 It seems convicted. No pure speed, without strategic reliability and without reaction capacity. In Miami, in addition, they were The only folded next to Hulkenbergwho saved the honor for a return. A brutal fact.
2025 as a laboratory for 2026
Cowell was clear: the team already thinks about the car of the future. “There are technologies designed for 2026 that we are going to try in the 2025 car. It is the only way to validate things for the future: if it works in the race, it really works. So we are going to use this car to test and perfect tools in a still young team, which now starts using resources that large teams have been taking advantage of. “
Con Adrian Newy working since March in Silverstone And the new operating wind tunnel, the future seems brilliant … but it is not immediate. Aston Martin is turning resources in 2026, although they will not let the AMR25 die without experimenting with it.
Imola improvements
“We are going to take some pieces to Icola,” he confirmed Cowell. “We have to decide if it is right, but there will also be new things in Monaco and in Barcelona. Some are related to the regulatory change on the rigidity of the front wings. “
When a journalist insinuated that they seemed that they were not doing anything in 2025, Cowell responded with irony: “Maybe we should squeeze the nuts a bit. You can notify Fred [Vasseur]”.
In the Paddock there is already talk of 2025 as a lost year for Aston Martin. The only team that has not improved in relation to 2024 or 2023. Alonso has not added a single point in six major awards. And the car, despite the effort of the Asturian, simply does not give more of itself. What comes in Icola, Monaco or Barcelona will be just one more patch for a project that, if you want to be reborn, only has one date on the horizon: 2026. Until then, they will continue to play background.
