Aston Martin take an important step forward in F1 Dutch GP this weekend. He came from 4 races where he was away from the podium. His upgrades did not work and the green team found themselves outmatched McLaren, Mercedes and, to a lesser extent, by Ferrari. It started out as the second best car of the year and suddenly it’s 5th. The Dutch race is trial by fire. Aston Martin presented an important package of improvements to begin to turn around its situation and enter the chasing group red bull. And it worked. Alonso took advantage of this to become 2nd.
The car took a step forward, but at Zandvoort it was not the second best car. He joined that chasing party and upgraded their weapons. Alonso’s hands did the rest. Knowing this, Aston Martin wants to continue to improve. This was said before the race by the performance manager of the Silverstone team, Tom McCullough, before the media was present at his appearance at the Aston Martin hospitality. There, in response to a question from this newspaper, Tom McCullough was pleased with the performance of the evolutions brought to Zandvoort and warned of more to come. In the Netherlands they debuted a new floor, the main part of the aerodynamics of an F1 car, but evolutions should arrive in other areas shortly.
“This evolution is only part of a program that we have developed. We will introduce new components. We are very happy with how the news works. We will continue to develop from here, it is a path of continuous development and there are several parts to come”he pointed out.
“We still have parts that will take weeks or months to get to the track. Development as you get closer to winter slows down (as teams start to focus on the 2024 car) but sometimes you find some matter of making a 2024 car you can bring in this year’s car and the ceiling and budget margin we have let us do it”, added to the ‘Relevo’ question.
“Improving our car to go from 5th best to 2nd is the challenge, even though McLaren has been very strong recently and Mercedes and Ferrari are also very close. We will improve the car as much as we can and some tracks will be better than others. We will try to get the most out of the car.” added back to MD.
“We will not stop, we want to continue the fight”
For its part, the Aston Martin Principal Team, Mike Krack, on ‘DAZN F1’ He cannot be sure that what was seen at Zandvoort will be synonymous with Alonso’s ability to continue to fight for podiums for the rest of the year. “We have to see Monza (this weekend), which is a different circuit, but two or three races are coming up where we can have more indicators.”
“We want to continue the fight. We will not stop this year, we will continue to develop the car and we have to reverse the trend that started in Austria. Victory at Zandvoort is close, but we have to be even closer next time.”argument
Source: La Verdad
I’m Rose Herman and I work as an author for Today Times Live. My expertise lies in writing about sports, a passion of mine that has been with me since childhood. As part of my job, I provide comprehensive coverage on everything from football to tennis to golf.
