Fernando Alonso has full confidence in Aston Martin. The green team is going through a patch of results with their 2024 car after an exciting 2023, mainly due to the better start of the more historic and efficient teams like Ferrari, McLaren, and the current dominator, Red Bull, who already has someone in orange and those who are red hot on their heels.
The Spaniard is clear when referring to the great improvement of McLaren and Ferrari compared to an Aston Martin that is struggling to make that step in 2024 where the evolutions do not give as much as a tenth of the Italian team and the Woking team.
“It shows that it’s a complex sport. McLaren to Austria, race 7 last year, they’re fighting for Q1 and they have a great team, you know, great people, great facilities and a great brand also behind them, and they were not in Q1 and then you saw something that the car came to life, you know, and then it changed everything and it was the same for us.”he declared, comparing the situation of Aston Martin to a McLaren that has gone from being in the queue at the beginning of 2023, to being the second best team since the middle of the same year and to continue making steps forward until it is at the level of fighting Red Bull this year.
The Asturian notices Lawrence Stroll as the protagonist
“Last year until let’s say mid-season we were the team that watched and copied yay, yeah, suddenly, you know, you can fast take two or three steps back. So now we have to focus on ourselves. Back there? I think, unlike other teams, we have a good leader with Lawrence, we are not only the owner of the team, but also a very competitive person and we will fix things faster than other teams. Thanks to him“, he pointed out, insistently referring to the owner of Aston Martin and his desire to see his team at the top.
Important data
“Should we lower the performance? I think, relative to the others, we have increased the performance of our car. But the others, the step is a bit bigger than us and we have dropped a bit in terms of positions.”he commented in Monaco before the press at Aston Martin hospitality, where MD was present.
The man from Oviedo emphasized the importance of scrapping the Imola race to take advantage of it as a shortcut to save time and find solutions faster for the current car by studying the data collected by a Fernando, who on Sunday in Imola competed in very experimental settings, far from the usual settings, to give the engineers the information they wanted.
That information should be key for Aston Martin to continue to understand how to maximize its current package. They added downforce and still couldn’t use it all because they didn’t find the right balance of the car in the evolutions. They will continue to work with the data collected by Alonso, Also important for future new parts coming down the track.
Source: La Verdad
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