Aston Martin The year did not start in the expected way, far from the podiums that were constantly achieved at the beginning of last year, and shows, as happened in the second part of the last season, too many difficulties in evolving the car. But in Budapest, at this week’s Hungarian F1 GP, He hopes the trend may begin to change.
The team continued to study their car from Imola and are working with the aim of starting to change things from Hungary, where Fernando Alonso and Lancr Stroll should bring a new package of evolutions that will act as a turning point in their season, a change of course .
however, As Fernando Alonso already said in MD in Barcelona, considering the previous ones, neither he nor the team wants to raise expectations.
“Less promising and more talking”, the Asturian pointed out to this newspaper a few weeks ago. “If in Hungary we are in the Top-5 I will answer you, and if in Hungary we are not in the points we have to work again”, he declared at the time. Until the car hits the track no conclusions can be drawn.
The issue is not just whether the parts work. This is about the team also showing a step forward in faster understandingfrom this Hungarian GP, how to make the most of these evolutions maximizing its performance by searching for the appropriate settings and balance.
Aston Martin has suffered greatly in this regard since last year and this year started with a fast car in qualifying, among the best within a lap, but which was diluted in the race with a larger degradation and lower speed in the long run. And while they added parts and added aerodynamic load to the car, the improvement was not as expected because they were not able to squeeze all the load hidden in those parts, which in turn harmed the qualy performance.
When will the new Aston Martin parts for Alonso be known in Hungary?
The new parts and the complete package will be shown on friday before the start of free practice for the Hungarian GP, when the cars and The news of the teams is shown in the pit lane for the press along with the official statement of the FIA explaining all the news.
Calm, patience and feet on the ground
Although the news of Aston Martin might work, we have to put things in context and remember how difficult it is for the green team to gain positions due to the massive competition on the grid. McLaren acquires Red Bull. Mercedes Also, waiting to see how it performs in a low/medium load circuit like Hungary. And Ferrari is a contender on some tracks. Everyone is improving and that makes it more difficult for an expected evolution of Aston Martin to represent the desired leap on the grid.
In this context of so much equality and competitiveness, Aston Martin must focus on the package that delivers the desired tenth and represents a step forward from which it continues to develop between now and the end of the year. In previous appointments, Alonso reiterated that the goal should be to return to the podium at the end of the year and finish in a good position to gain positive momentum for 2025. But the challenge is huge because there are many teams that aspire to podiums , at least 6 or 8 cars, 3 or 4 rows, depending on the track. Aston Martin wants to be among that leading group.
Source: La Verdad
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