Newey announced the weak point that could affect Alonso’s expected 2026: “It’s a disadvantage, we’re pretty blind”

Adrian Newey This is the huge hope of Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin for 2026. He is considered a better car engineer from F1, a “genius in aerodynamics, but also in the car architecture and go to the smallest detail, even thinking about how the FP1, FP2 and FP3” will be, as explained by the head of the head of the head of the head of the head of the head Aston Martin, Andy Cowell. He created two champion champions in the last two changes of F1 regulations, the 4 titles of VettelAnd that’s Verstappen. And in that aspiration came to Aston Martin, to create a winning car at Alonso And stroll exploiting the massive change of policies that will open next year, with different cars. Today, it provides project details in Monaco, in its first race with the team, in an interview with Table Round with the international press that publishes the media such as ‘Motorsport’ or ‘AS’.

However, the British itself tried to reduce expectations that somewhat discussing the major weaknesses he still had Aston Martin, a team lost from a small structure, in a mega factory, before its own wind tunnel, who next year will build its own gearbox in the first time And that to 2026 will have an exclusive machine with Honda after becoming a Mercedes client. And there You need to add the big talent recruitment campaign In recent years, this course has not stopped. All of that should fit, also the new simulator.

The new wind tunnel has issued positive results From the beginning. There he mocked and made the final details of the novelty that Aston Martin presented last week at Icola, which in the first time for two years, the team could improve rather than take steps back to development. However, Newey is more concernedAnd not hiding that this can be a problem, as it is a major piece for creating and developing a 2026 car and also to refine car tuning over the weekend.

“I think it’s fair to say that some of our tools are weak, especially the simulator for the pilot: it requires a lot of work because it’s not all linked to this timeAnd this is a major research tool. Not having it is a limit, but obviously we have to work here. And then explain a plan to get to where you should be. But maybe it’s a two -ear project, really. “

The two ways in which the simulator is key

“It’s a disadvantage. It’s hard to say how much. Piloting simulators in F1 sand use two methods. On the one hand, as a research tool when you see how you will design next year’s carHow do you put all the tools to put it together better. And the rest, of course, is how the car will form in the carUsually, especially for some races over the weekend. So we will be a little blind for a few hours. We just have to use the experience and the best judgment. Time will tell how successful it is. “

Both points are key. The first, is clear: the creation of the car and the creation of new pieces. And focused on the second point: it will see an example of its importance to teams like the Red Bull, which begins on many occasions on Friday far from the pole, but after a difficult task of their simulator pilots that night at the factory, they manage to find an optimal setting that allows the verstappen to then release their magic to mamaximize the result and fight for the poste.

Newey does not talk about deadlines to find out when the simulator can be able to tero to the maximum, one machine that is the previous main team, Mike Krack, referred to as a “Star Wars simulator” For his latest technology. But you have to fix it to imitate exactly what happens on the track, so that when Aston Martin gets a piece on the pavement, it works like what they get, and so that when the team needs to find the perfect adjustment, the simulator is given fast and without mistakes.

In that sense, Adrian Newey’s speech may have the purpose of lowering expectations. You know: In F1, everything is said for one reason. And many times, with a little ‘correlation’ that is reality. So you have to wait to see the 2026 car on the track and its performance with rivals to find out if the simulator has become a real problem.

So far, Adrian has covered his back and He talked about the “a two -ear project”, when asked about the time that could take that relationship with the simulator. “Not having it is a limit, but you have to work in the meantime. This is probably a two -eye project,” he said.

In fact, with the change of 2009 regulations, the Red Bull has not been champion and it has begun to be dominant since 2010, for four years. In 2022 a similar thing that happened: Ferrari began the first races and then, the Red Bull crushed from the middle of the championship, occupying the Max 3 consecutive title to the current F1 era, to this day, with the first added in 2021, also a work of Adrian Newey, which could match the previous year’s over -the -age potential for Dominator since 2014, Mercedes.

What is this problem? Newey has already provided clues about this recently in an interview published on the Aston Martin Team’s website, featured that physical models are more important than the hardware simulator when getting an accurate relationship. “You may have the best motion system in the world, but if you do not have the models and the relationship with the aerodynamic model, the ties to the pneumatic model, etc., will not help,” he argued.

“This is the best F1 factory and the best air tunnel”

Adrian highlighted the quality of new facilities and team professionals and the enormous growth that the whole has lived in a very short time. All the machinery is missing to work together and no mistakes, as Cowell said in an exclusive interview with Mundo Deportivo.

“The factory is probably the best in F1, and the air tunnel is probably the best air tunnel in F1. Now, the air vents are a bit complicated, so they are still in the process of developing. Productivity is not the same, because we are still working. But in the end, the tunnels of the air are pretty much like the power banks. Little.

“There are many individuals very, very good people. We need to try to work together, perhaps in a relatively better organized way. And I think that’s just the result of clearly, The roots of the team in Jordan, which became the Force India, which has become a career, and like that, always a small team but slightly more than performance, now, in a very short time, a massive team that, in fact, yields below the expectation of this year “he said.

“And I think that most of the day just get everything to live and learn to get the best in people.”the engineer added.

In the first place, to create a car without a well correlated simulator, Adrian Newey said it was about making better assessments to try to replace the deficiency.

The moment where it is within the 2026 project is so detailed. It focuses on “car foundations”: “By this time I started in early March, and the pressure was equally largeBecause of the fact, the times are longer, because cars are more complex, and designing and making them longer, and research tools are more sophisticated, so you look a lot and investigate in terms of what that design will be. “

“My main goal at this time is to work with all of what I call car foundations, They are Parts of the car that cannot be changed at a time, such as repairing the front and rear suspension, the length of the fuel tank, Where the main mass cannot be brought to the wheel, all kinds of things. We work here. “

“Honestly, we didn’t have enough time, and we didn’t have enough, as I said … Of our simulation tools, which are probably quite weak, so we have to make the best judgments about it, and if we can do well, then the body and aileron, etc., if the case is provided, you can try to develop throughout the year “He explained.

Working next to Alonso

“When it comes to talking about collaboration with Fernando, soon, because, as you know, this is the first race I attended, so yes, of course, I talked to Fernando in the factory, but I think when you get to the track when you really start that relationship, so I hope that happens, it takes a little while, but especially the next one,” he said about Fernando.