The Aston Martin revolution: a picture is worth a thousand words

Aston Martin wants to be a champion team, one of the best teams in F1and for this, Lawrence Take a Walkowner of the green box, wants the team to have all the necessary ingredients to reach that goal.

It needs the best engineers, as in the case of Adrian Newey and many of the signings the team has made. i need it too to a champion driver like Alonsothe best processes and a factory up to that challenge. Aston Martin combines all these elements, burning stages to continue growing, as they did in their time Mercedes or Red Bullteams that took 5 years to become champions. And it is clear from the image that the English team shared on the networks.

Fernando Alonso is sure that sooner or later, Aston Martin will win. Also Lawrence Stroll and the members of the ensemble. Although no one knows how long it will take to achieve this (if they can finally do it), the ambition of the group is very clear with only two images. The green team published a Google Earth image of what their previous factory looked like and compared it to a current image of their new Technology Campuswhich is located in the same position, in front of the Silverstone Circuit. The comparison says it all.

From a small factory with a few hundred employees, to a Technological Campus with 3 interconnected buildings, with modern machinery, with everything designed to optimize the design and car manufacturing processes, with nearly 1,000 workers. The change is clear.

“Two and a half years ago this team had 250 people working and now we are over 800,” Alonso exclaimed in 2023, making it clear that Aston Martin is in a process of transition and that it is necessary to be patient with a project that he has always defined as “ambitious and winning.”

And here we should add the icing on the cake: the formation of a custom element such as new wind tunnel, available from 2025, and a new simulator.

All ingredients for the ultimate goal

MD already visited the factory in 2023, a few weeks after part of the new buildings were inaugurated and the employees of Aston Martin They will move to their new offices and workplaces. At the time, it was surprising how many comparisons could be made at a glance between that little green building where the old Racing Point (or Force India) once operated and the amazing new headquarters of Aston Martin . A complete statement of purpose.

This comparison helps to understand what happened to Aston Martin. The green team surprised in 2023 by finding the key with an extremely competitive car, something that, together with the initial conceptual errors of Ferrari, Mercedes or McLaren, allowed Alonso to fight for the podiums from the start with his new team. However, the team has gone from having about 200 workers to about a thousand and they are in the process of moving to the new headquarters, starting a new factory, Parts are still being outsourced as new factory sites are openedand above all, depending on the Mercedes wind tunnelwhich they can only use when the stars give them to do so.

This explains, in part, why Aston Martin could not keep up with the breakneck pace of development of cars from established factories such as Ferrari, Mercedes or McLaren and that it did not see the key to its development. Of course, all this was added to a clear mistake in the calculation and concept of the technical departmentthat failed to show improvements that worked for a season and a half, something Lawrence Stroll chose to act on.

now, with organizational change in the technical department and the management teamthe imminent arrival of the aerodynamics guru, Adrian Newey (start work in March), and the inclusion of new key pieces such as wind tunnels and simulatorsAston Martin hopes to take the desired steps forward to become a winning and champion team as soon as possible.

Time will tell if that moment comes before Fernando Alonso decides to leave the ‘Great Circus’ permanently. And for now, nobody knows if Fernando will continue beyond 2026. In that context, for now, the big hopes for the man from Oviedo are placed in the change of regulations in 2026, where the distribution of forces in the grid may completely change because the cars will be completely different from the current ones.

Aston Martin, like other teams, wants to take advantage of these new regulations to put themselves at the top. And if they don’t succeed, they hope to do so in the years to come. Its new factory is a clear example of its ambition. Due to resources, it will not be. Now they must take advantage of all those ingredients to reach that goal.