“We’re part of an incredible team here at Aston Martin, we’re part of an iconic brand, and that makes you proud. But when you see that the car is competitive and you’re fighting at the front, that feeling is increasing. You can see it in all the team members: they’ve all grown up quite a bit,” comment Andy Stevenson, Aston Martin sporting director, in an interview published by the green team itself on its web portal. The same thing he told happened to Andy as well. His goals in F1 and his approach to racing have completely changed in the step in front of his team and the growth that the project experienced thanks to the ambition of Lawrence Stroll (owner) and after the arrival of Fernando Alonso as a great leader on the track. The set has changed and that can be seen in the corridors of its headquarters.
Aston Martin has now been fighting for podiums since the start of the course and looking for victories. The prize arrived at Andy. After more than three decades of loyalty to the Silverstone team, which he joined when he was Jordan, it was time to dream big.
He remembers with nostalgia when he came to the group. “You won’t last long here,” Eddie Jordan told him. I tried to motivate him. ‘I’ll prove you wrong: I’ll keep my head down, work hard and still be here,’ he thought. Eddie did it. 30 years later, Andy is the sporting director of a team that wants to fight for everything. Stevenson strongly warns against this. : “I have unfinished business with this team. Winning a few races is not for me here. Nobody in the team is here to win a few races. We are here to win the World Championship, that’s the long-term purpose.”
And after such a long wait and so many years of work, if anything was clear to him, it was the green complex, at the beginning of a great project, with a large factory in the middle of the construction process, He has reached the front positions to stay always. And to achieve this, it is necessary to clench your teeth.
“It took a lot of work to get to where we are today, but we can’t rest on our laurels. The days of punching above our weight and celebrating fourth and fifth positions are over,” he emphatically exclaimed. Aston Martin wants to succeed. He had no other thoughts. They want to keep growing.
Can Aston Martin improve its car throughout the year?
“Can the team sustain this level of performance?” That’s the million dollar question. Many wonder whether Aston Martin will be able to stay ahead of Ferrari, a team with many problems to sort out, and especially from Mercedes, who will show a great revolution in Imola where they can change their current car concept.
Aston Martin has a better starting base and his car is newsomething that allows him to be more optimistic about the enormous room for improvement the car has. In addition, the green team has more wind tunnel and CFD simulation time than the regulation allows. Silverstone can take advantage of this to gain an advantage and get closer to Red Bull as they bring new parts to the track and develop their current car. But that theory isn’t exactly math. We have to see if it will work on the track.
In this sense, Andy did not hesitate to highlight how difficult it is to keep Mercedes and Ferrari. “We have to stay realistic. We will need a lot of work to stay where we are. There are some incredibly well-established teams who may not have started the season strongly, but will do everything they can to close the gap and try to beat us.”
However, he emphasizes the confidence with which the team worked in the creation of this car, the same in which they follow their own path, without doubt at least, in things that are very clear.
“We came into this season confident in the work we did with the AMR23, but not overconfident, and we delivered the car we thought we could. Similarly, we are confident in our development plan for the season. We know what we’re doing and the direction we’re going, but we don’t know what everyone else is doing, that’s the unknown.”. Andy has no doubt that they will be beautiful. Notice to all. It is yes, it is necessary to see what can be achieved in the development of his rivals.
pressure and motivation
In addition, Andy Stevenson assured that “the pressure” he feels to maintain the team’s current performance bar is something that motivates him to continue working. He didn’t want it to end. A key figure who has been with the team since its inception, Jordan started as a mechanic and then worked his way up to Chief Mechanic before becoming Sporting Director in 2005. Andy couldn’t help but compare those moments to the ones he lives now.
“The team is very different from how it was in the past. When we first entered Formula One in 1991, we weren’t sure if we would complete the whole season!” he says.
“The only comparison I can make is that what is happening now with this team is as exciting as the first years in Formula 1, if not more exciting. Entering a Grand Prix with a car that you can actually compete with is very exciting. In 1991 we finished fifth in the championship, but we would qualify three seconds from pole position. We are closer now.”finished
Source: La Verdad
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