Aston Martin’s long-awaited improvements for Fernando Alonso, on the way?

Aston Martin He doesn’t want to throw in the towel. Although all the teams at this point have focused all their efforts in their factories for the creation of their new 2024 cars, Aston Martin wants to improve its performance in the last 5 races of the year in by introducing some new features. This is what he assured Mike Krack, head of the green team, on ‘DAZN F1’ at the last Qatar GP. Are the newly announced pieces coming? Time will be the answer. And Tom McCullough, the team’s performance director, told the MD at the Italian GP that more parts should have arrived which ultimately did not. It remains to be seen if those words will finally become news for the events in Austin and Mexico, routes that Alonso looked at especially months ago. Today though, things have changed with McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari showing themselves in better shape on most tracks.

The latest good news from Aston Martin arrives at Zandvoort. There, Alonso’s hands on changing conditions made the car look like it had taken a big step forward. But not that much. Finally, these pieces did not help the green car to respond strongly to the ‘sorpasso’ of McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrariteams now have better performance than the green car and fight with better weapons to lead the chase red bull on most tracks.

For this reason, Aston Martin continues to not throw in the towel, looking for a bigger reaction. “We have to be honest: we were less competitive than we expected during the Qatar race. A sixth place (for Alonso) at the end was the most we aspired to”commented on the Qatari appointment.

“We have more improvements planned in the next races to come and I hope to turn things around. We lost a bit of our competitiveness in the last races, which was difficult for the whole team, so it is important that we push to add something to the car and be more competitive”, added the Team Principal of the Silverstone team.

Fight for position in the Constructors’ World Cup

Aston Martin He needs to improve especially to defend his position (and the millions given to each position) in Constructors’ World Cup. There are only 5 races left, but things are very tight. Aston Martin is clearly the second best team until Barcelona. From there, it started to come down to the Constructors. Mercedes is now second with 326 points, just out of reach of those in green.

while, Ferrari is fourth on 298 and Aston Martin has 230 points. The Italians seem to be pulling away (they are already 68 points away) and in this sense, the current performance of take a walk. But most of all, it is very worrying McLaren, who is 5th with 219 points.

McLaren is just behind in 11 with a car currently second best on the grid at most tracks. Aston Martin is struggling to defend fourth place. Needs improvements. And even when they come, McLaren comes out on top.