Miami, Florida – The 2023 season of Formula 1 begged with a surprise team fighting in the front of the network.
Aston Martin.
With veteran pilot Fernando Alonso joining the team to drive alongside Lance Stroll, the team left the doors. Both pilots ended at the points of the season by opening the Bahrain Grand Prix, doing so while they recovered from a painful wrist injury, and with Alonso scoring a podium in six of the first eight races, the power of the power of the sea season.
However, the team vanished in the section, forming with a fifth place in the Constructors Championship.
A fifth place this year seems to be well in the distance.
The team arrived in Miami sitting in the seventh place in the classification with ten points, placing them at points behind Haas in sixth place. While there is hope for the future, the present raises a fairly difficult challenge.
“Yes, I mean we are not as competitive as we want to be,” Fernando Alonso told the media, including SB nationThorsday in Miami. “There are a couple of factors that made the car a bit difficult at this time in terms of rhythm, and perhaps not as fast as some of
The center of the field. They lifted the level and are closer to the first four, and we didn’t take that step.
“So yes, it is still a long championship, so we need to react.”
As noted there his hope on the horizon, with the arrival of the legendary designer Adrian Newey, who joined the team in March. Alonso recently spent time with Newey in the new facilities of the team in Silverstone, but any single possible can be disabled in the future.
“I think this year is just a continuation of some of the problems we found in the last two seasons, and we could not overcome some of the obstacles we found,” Alonso continued. “I was in the factory and had lunch with Adrian, a couple of talks, but you don’t know much this year.
“It was more a general talk about the team in general and how it felt in these first couples or week in Aston and some of the changes that can occur in the team for a better future under their guide and experience.
“Yes, it’s always exciting, you know, talk to him and work with him finally.”
Even so, with Newey joining this season, and the new regulations enter into force next year, Alonso believes that the legendary engineer’s approach must be in the next generation of cars.
“Designing cars as you have done, you know, how much it requests and how long you need to dedicate, it is likely to prefer to join the team a year ago and start in [the 2026 car]”Continuation of Alonso”. Then even for [the] ’26 Project I am sure that it is late, so I completely understand that it should focus only on the car next year.
“And this year he touched the car. He did not design the car, so I don’t think it depends on him to fix the car.”
As if Aston Martin could steal some points this weekend, with the Miami Factoring Grand Prix as one of F1 Sprint Race weekends that could create more opportunities for the team, Alonso did everything possible to moderate expectations.
“The closest example is China, where we describe a little better than expected on Friday, and we return to our normal position for Saturday. I think that if we have chosen another strategy or anyone that we can differ the points, which is so -o -so -so -so -o -points’s, so -so -so -so -points’s, whatever it is, whatever it is so -o -so -so -so -so -so -so -so -so -so Good track for us.
“Only in 2023 with a stage here [Alonso finished third in Miami that season during the team’s tremendous start] We only come to life in Quali. All free practices were a bit little competitive for our standards in 2023 at the beginning of the year and last year too. Even if we started the season with force, Miami was difficult.
“So yes, let’s see if we change this year, but it could be a difficult weekend.”
Even with those temperate expectations, Alonso seemed hopeful of what is just around the corner.
“Are [headed] In the right direction, but as usual in formula one, nothing changes from one day to another.
“Everything needs time.”
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