“They will arrive, but also for everyone”

Fernando Alonso closed the Miami 2025 Grand Prix With a raw diagnosis and without hot cloths: Aston Martin is in free fall. The two -time world champion was 15, just ahead of his partner Lance Stroll, and both signed a result that places them, de facto, as the worst team of the grill in normal conditions.

What a few months ago was a suspicion, it is now a verdict. “In normal conditions we have suffered all year, it was not going to be different here,” he summarized Alonso After the race.

The Spanish ended almost twenty seconds from the Sauber of Nico Hulkenberg, a car that was presumed as the weakest of the grill, but in Miami proved clearly ahead of the AMR25. Not even chaos, accidents or rain – elements that sometimes open doors to unexpected results – aligned this time with the Asturian. “In the end, neither rain, nor safety cars, nor the chaos necessary to get a better result,” he lamented.

For a pilot accustomed to fighting adversity, frustration is not only due to the low performance of the car, but to the team’s inability to take advantage of the few opportunities offered by a long and demanding season. “That happens once every ten or twelve races, that there is chaos and there is an atomic bomb and you can take points. There have been three occasions this year: the first touched the gravel in Australiathe second burned the brakes in the first round and yesterday (in the sprint) we did not stop when the track was to stop, so we have lost, as I said yesterday, there will be four or five opportunities during the year, we have already lost three, so to see if the next one does not lose it. “

The Asturian situation is especially bitter if compared to that of Strollwhich has added some points thanks to opportunism in chaotic races. Meanwhile, the Ovetense is still blank, victim of team errors, questionable strategic decisions and a car that is not up to it. In Saturday’s Sprint race, when I could have fought for the podium, Aston Martin He failed when not riding dry tires in time, when Fernando was asking for it, wasting a golden occasion.

Aston Martin’s improvements

With this panorama, Hope is put in the arrival of the European calendar. But even there are too many certainties and Alonso There is no excessive illusions: “Of course, new pieces will arrive, but they arrive for everyone. Normally we only talk about Aston’s improvements, as if the others were resting and sleeping. Everyone improves the car, so what we can carry for Icola or the following races … Everyone will wear aerodynamic packages. So we will try to make ours bigger, but well, it is what there is.”

Far from giving up, Alonso It continues to find small motivations in competitiveness flashes that, occasionally, appear. Although many times those moments go unnoticed for the general public. “At the beginning of the year I already know that there are 24 races in which it is normal not to score and it is normal to stay out of Q1. Then, when I do the 11th in Japanfor example, and I arrive here to the Corralito and I say ‘It has been one of the best races’, it has really been special. Well, that message is misunderstood, how will a super special career be the 11th? ‘ And things like that … because I know that the normal position is what we are today. And when there is 11º, when there is a Q3, when these things happen, they are really outstanding benefits, in my opinion. So, those little goals that you wear every weekend to do more than logical … The truth is that they keep me quite motivated. “

While Alonso tries to squeeze a soulless car, Aston Martin You need an urgent reaction if you do not want the 2025 season to become an endless agony. Because it’s not just about not scoring: now, behind Miami, even Sauber It seems unattainable.