This is the image that all fans of Fernando Alonso They want to see at the beginning of the new year, the Asturian pilot who will go to the facilities of Aston Martinin front of Circuit of Silverstoneto focus on the specific work related to the new car that the green team did for the next one 2024 F1 season. Aston Martin On Thursday he published the first snapshot of the Asturian behind the wheel of the simulator, working in helmets with direct communication with the engineers, to continue to understand the new car, its configurations and the data provided by the simulation for beginning of the season.
The Spaniard arrived at the factory last Wednesday, as seen in a video posted by the team itself on their social networks. And on Thursday he was already working on going laps and more laps in the simulator to gather key data that needed to be validated with those from the wind tunnel, and above all, with the important ones that the team collects on the track in the preseason testing of Bahrain (February 21 to 23)a moment where the group can begin to assess the correlation of the data and evaluate the initial performance and areas for improvement of the new car.
It should be remembered that Fernando Alonso clarified at the end of last season the duties that the Aston Martin team had to do for this season with its new car, the AMR24.
The AMR24 will be unveiled on February 12 at Aston Martin’s new Silverstone factory. Dan Fallows, technical chief of the green team, has already said that he sees it possible to repeat the huge leap made by the 2023 car compared to 2022. This time, the team has a firmer base on which to create this year’s car. . , which should be an evolution in search of improvement in the weak points of the 2023 car, things like aerodynamic efficiency in the straight and increasing the performance window of the car.
“It’s absolutely possible, we saw what we did last winter and there are opportunities to take another big step forward,” said Dan. Fernando Alonso is working towards that goal, having already focused throughout the winter and holidays on continuous training the maximum physical and adding many kilometers of karting in his Oviedo Circuit Museum to reach the optimal level for his second challenge in Aston Martin.
Source: La Verdad
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