Fernando Alonso believes Aston Martin will enter the Formula One season in a stronger place after studying from final yr’s robust classes.
The Silverstone-based staff, which unveiled its new Mercedes-powered AMR25 automotive on-line Sunday forward of Wednesday’s Bahrain testing, completed fifth for the second consecutive yr in 2024.
After double world champion Alonso claimed six podiums within the first eight races of 2023, expectations had been excessive. However, he failed to complete increased than fifth final yr, whereas teammate Lance Stroll’s greatest outcome was sixth.
In November, the staff made adjustments, shifting technical director Dan Fallows apart and bringing in former Ferrari technical director Enrico Cardile and Red Bull’s title-winning designer Adrian Newey, who will be part of March 3.
The season begins in Australia on March 16.
“I think we did learn a lot last year. The second part of the season was sort of experiments going on just in the way of learning even more things into the 2025 car,” Alonso advised reporters.
“The simulator has been up to date as effectively, so we’ve been working rather a lot within the sim to have the ability to develop the automotive just a little bit extra exactly than in the previous few seasons.
“We have new instruments. We have new group. We have new individuals in place to deal with a number of the weaknesses that we for positive recognized final yr. So I feel we begin in a a lot better place.
“We still need to work a lot, for sure. We lost a little bit of time and months last year and we think we will catch up very soon.”
Stroll agreed: “There was a whole lot of experimenting by means of the course of final yr, and I feel we discovered rather a lot about why a number of the upgrades did not deliver us what we needed.
“Everything that has gone into the development of this year’s car has really taken a lot of the lessons we learned from last year.”
Team principal Andy Cowell, who took over from Mike Krack in January, declined to set a timeframe for fulfillment and mentioned there could be no slicing corners.
He mentioned work had been achieved to make the brand new automotive extra secure by means of corners and extra predictable to drive. Cowell additionally hoped for higher correlation, matching the info from the wind tunnel to what the automotive was doing on monitor.
A brand new wind tunnel will quickly be operational at Silverstone, giving the staff its personal facility as an alternative of getting to make use of Mercedes’ wind tunnel.
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