Aston Martin has “high hopes for Monaco” and Alonso is looking at 33

Monaco is one of the appointments Aston Martin has pointed to as key for months. Property Mike Krack, Team Principal of the team, repeated it from the beginning of the course. I have been searching ever since Monaco, due to the lack of straight lines (the great strength of Red Bull due to top speed) and being a track full of slow curves (strong point of the green car). But also in Barcelona, ​​​​​​​​the next race, due to the excellent performance of the Aston Martin in the fast corner and the good management of the tires (although in Barcelona there is a long straight where the Red can dominate Bull). After 4 podiums for Alonso and fourth place in the first 5 races of the yearafter the superior Red Bull for its top speed on straights, Aston Martin and Fernando do not hide and make sure that they are looking to win in the Principality. They know they have options and they want to make them.

Mike Krack, in the run-up to the Monaco F1 GPhas no doubt that the team should aim for it, answering in the affirmative to the question of whether Aston Martin is a contender for victory in Monaco. “It’s nice to say yes and do it. We all have high hopes in Monaco with our two drivers, we have a great car. In the simulator everyone is very excited.”said in statements collected by ‘Motorsport.com’ portal.

However, the question remains how other rivals, especially Red Bull and Ferrari, will behave with their maximum downforce package, after being favorites in the fight for pole position by one lap in the first few races. And there is the doubt of Mercedes, who in Monaco presents a half of a modified car with his new package of improvements, which already uses Red Bull-style sidepods with a drop.

“But we mustn’t forget our rivals. It’s true that there aren’t many straights here. It’s also true that we haven’t seen a Red Bull or a Ferrari or a Mercedes in a high downforce configuration., because so far we have had no hint of these characteristics. So I think it’s easy to say: ‘We’ll easily get ahead.’ I don’t think it’s that easy. I think we have to be 100% all the time.” he commented, making it clear that to aspire to success, they must sign a perfect weekend, because any mistake could be the opposite of a dream weekend.

“It’s easy to make predictions, but you can fail very quickly. So we tried to do it the other way around. I think we have to look at the stars but also keep our feet on the ground and work hard. And we need to be at 100% to get a good result this weekend. If it is better than the podiums (4 third positions in 5 Alonso races) we’ve done it, we want to, but it’s hard.

Aston Martin news for the Monaco GP

Aston Martin has a different plan to other rivals in terms of its car development. He doesn’t plan to introduce huge packs of evolutions in one race, but instead take piece after piece in multiple races as they come out of the factory. In Baku they brought a new rear wing with optimized DRS and in Imola they had to bring more parts, as well as in other subsequent circuits.

The appointment at Imola was canceled and Monaco is not the best track to start new developments because it runs at low speed and it is difficult to draw conclusions from its performance, in addition to the risk of hitting the wall and destroying any improvement. however, Mercedes will build its new package and Aston Martin will choose to take some of the pieces that will be on display at Imola, saving the rest for next week at Barcelona.

“It’s just a bit divided. The improvements from Imola, the ones that make sense, we kept on the car for Monaco, and there are one or two parts that we’ll take in Barcelona, ​​​​​​because there’s no point in bringing them here. . It is a split approach. So we will have some updates here and on others in Spain. And we’ll have a little more after Spain…”he concluded.