Aston Martin took a big risk at the United States GP by starting a new and important evolution package on a sprint weekend, with a free practice session to understand the new parts and find the right settings. Furthermore, they have to do it on a track full of potholes where finding the perfect car height is a huge challenge. To this cocktail of difficulties was added the poor assembly of the car with parts arriving very tight, which led to an overheating problem with the brakes of his two cars in that crucial session, in Free Practice 1. Almost walking did not run. and Alonso’s FP1 was only half an hour, not enough.
Aston Martin does not have the necessary data to find the key in its car settings to face the classification and the sprint day. They fail due to lack of track time with these new features. Therefore, before the race on Sunday, they decided to prioritize data collection and took the race as a pure test. They entered the parc ferme and compared packages. Alonso rides with the one from Qatar and Walk with the new one, but with a different setting than the previous day. And the result is very positive. Walk, exiting the pit lane, then 9th. Alonso, also from the pit lane, could have finished in 8th place had it not been for damage to the bottom of his car that forced him to retire in the final stretch.
So, the feeling left by Aston Martin is positive, in the reaction of the team in a delicate moment, in taking advantage of Sunday with a good set-up, a good speed and for having collected a lot of data to use to understand its novelty. weapons and their optimization. Mexico must do better. According to Alonso himself, Sunday’s race in Austin was more “an FP0 in Mexico”, that is, perfect practice sessions to prepare for the weekend’s event.
Alonso, optimistic after the race
“It became a super race. Starting in the pit lane, we finished eighth and ninth for sure (Stroll was 9th). So we had a bit of a different story in the race today compared to the two days of the weekend. The speed of the car is very fast, we can reach the middle zone quite easily and we are getting closer to Russell. So, I think this has been good news. The bad one has to retire,” Alonso said about it on ‘DAZN F1’.
“We have to analyze. We had a new car all weekend. Yesterday we did a race with the new car (sprint race), and today Lance went with the new car and a different setup and I went with the old car with a more familiar setup. So now we will put everything on the table and draw conclusions,” added the Asturian after the American meeting.
“We wanted to leave Austin, after a difficult weekend, even knowing and with a clear conclusion facing Mexico, and today’s race is more than an ‘FP0’ (Free Practice 0) to get to FP1 of “Mexico prepared. But it was an FP0 where we were more competitive than the rest of the weekend. So there is good news even in that sense,” Fernando concluded.
More news?
After the premiere of the new package of improvements in Austin, according to ‘BBC’ journalist Ted Kravitz, Aston Martin should bring more evolutions to the Mexican GP. “They will have more improvements in Mexico and they understand their evolutions for a better Mexican GP,” highlighted the reporter after the F1 United States GP.
Source: La Verdad
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