Miami was, for pure benefits, The worst prize of the season for Aston Martin. Alonso finished the 15th race only ahead of Stroll and almost 20 seconds of the 14th, which was Hulkenberg. In addition, the team was wrong to delay the Spanish stop at ESPRENT and gave one of the very few options to add points this year. They did with Lance (already has 14), but Fernando has not yet inaugurated the account in a campaign that can be done very uphill while the factory exclusively prioritizes the 2026 project.
About improvements, Aston’s plan is clear. There will be new pieces in Imola if they are ready in time, That is expected. You also work on several Updates for Monaco Specific for the type of layout, and also news will come to Barcelona so that aerodynamics adapt to the technical directive that limits the elasticity of the pieces. From then on, the summer has already entered, a minor update is contemplated in addition to test pieces that can be useful for next year’s car. With that deployment, which is not extremely ambitious, Aston must be able to leave the well in which the AMR25 has introduced them.
Thus, does it hurt more not to take advantage of times like the sprint? Alonso responds to: “Reality already knows it, it hurt on Saturday and it will hurt many days. Because there will be four or five opportunities to add points this year and we have lost one in Australia because of the gravel and my mistake, we have lost one in China with disqualifications because I had to leave for a mechanical problem, with the brakes on flames in the first round. And we lost Miami’s Saturday for not entering boxes when the track was dry. There are three lost opportunities, there will be one or two more during the year, to see if the next one does not lose it. ”
“The goal is to win the World Cup in 2026. Are we approaching? We will not know until February next year, we have signed the best designer in history, we have a new wind tunnel and unfortunately 19 races this year in which you have to come here after results that will not accompany, that we do not add points, and say that we are positive. It is a contradiction for the people who are at home, but we are positive, ”says Fernando without a demotivation apex:“ Patience is fine, I trust my sensations and my benefits. On Friday I managed to enter Q3 with a car that we saw where it is on Sunday, 20 seconds from other cars and with many difficulties. On Saturday I fought for the podium with Hamilton and Albon in a career of difficult mixed conditions. We are aware of the conditions we have in the car, but personally I am not worried. ”
“What car risk at the stop?”
In great must of the weekend, beyond the enormous deficiencies of the car, it was the late change of dry to dry gums in the sprint. Andy Cowell, team leader, He tried to justify himself before this media: “Fernando was at the points and not Natural to stop in a sprint, intermediates have already worked well in the past very worn (dry) ”. When things don’t go …
