Alonso and his reflection after Fallows’ dismissal: “The goal is to win”

A little over a week ago, Dan’s dismissal became known Fallows as technical director of the Aston Martin Formula 1 teamclear reaction on the part of Lawrence Take a Walk group owner, due to the lack of car development and poor performance of the evolutions presented on the track since last year.

That move comes months after the announcement of the signing of the best F1 designer in history, Adrian Neweyin addition to getting great brains like Enrico Cardile, former head of the chassis department at none other than Ferrari. In fact, the Italian merger was a warning of what could happen Fallows if the new parts still don’t work, since he was announced as technical director, a position already occupied by Dan, who has finally finished packing his bags (although he will remain at Aston Martin Group).

To the names of Newey and Cardile we must add the previously announced signing of Andy Cowellthe former Mercedes engine guru, who was a key player in Hamilton’s titles with the silver arrows and now takes the position of General Director.

After Fallows’ farewell, at the end of a season in which Aston Martin went from leading the middle zone at the start of the year to being the 8th, 9th or 10th best car (out of 10) from in the middle of the year, with Fernando Alonso They asked him before the Las Vegas GP about the departure of the man who had been the technical leader of the team in recent campaigns.

“The team has signed some good people and also good names for the future. Obviously, this is all part of the process and we will support whatever decision our bosses make. “I’m sure the team’s goal is to win championships and win races in the future.”declared Alonso, confident in Lawrence Stroll’s good decisions for the future and reiterates his confidence in the team and its goals.

“We’re all trying to understand the problems with the car and the performance we need to find, and it seems like we’ve lost some of the performance we had at the beginning of the year,” He commented at the press conference of the green team, in statements reported by ‘Motorsport.com’, when asked about the poor performance of the new features presented a few weeks ago, the last of the season, and they also did not have the expected effect . .

Hoping for 2025

Fernando Alonso hopes that changes and learning from the 2024 team’s mistakes will help the green team improve in 2025.

“We have to try to improve in the coming weekends and especially next year. There are many changes in the team, also in the technical part and we have to accommodate and we have to shorten as much time as needed because Formula 1 competes every two weeks and we don’t have time to think too much, but yes “Fortunately the season is over and we have a little break to regroup, to reset a little bit and hopefully next year we can learn from all the possible mistakes that happened this year and improve for 2025 .”Asturian ending.