“Every time I talk to Fernando about this year's car improvements, he looks coldly, with a gesture of concern: 'Are you not going to compromise next year right?' He asks me. And I tell him no, that what will also be introduced for help. And I have mentioned 2027 or 2028, but we are overturned to do my best in 2026. ”The explanation is that of Andy Cowell, CEO of Aston Martin and 'main team' of the F1 team, of the envelope what is about to arrive for the AMR25.
If it were for Alonso, I would not want anything until the end of the year if that means retracting money and hours for the car next year. But it turns out that the plan is that what comes now, In two deadlines, first in Silverstone this weekend and then in Spa (mid -July), are elements that They will serve for the AMR26, Most likely, suspensions, although these improvements are to be determined.
Those elements, especially the rear suspensions, will bare They can be tested on the track to refine What will arrive next year.
There is also talk that there may be another retouching Newey In some car zone, surely the floor. In the talks that Aston's technical chief has with the engineers who continue with this year's car, Newey has continued trying optimize what was introduced into Icola and with what Alonso has achieved its 14 points of this year in full, the ground.
It was the improvement planned for the start of the season in Australia, or perhaps Japan, but the master of aerodynamics It stopped it by warning that the simulator had a correlation problem Serious and made two months wait.
The strategy has changed completely compared to 2024. The 360 evolution that implemented by Dan Fallows and that did not work is over. It was to wear improvements in almost every race of the year, which was a serious problem, because It was continuously compared and nothing worked as expected. At the end of the year they ended up putting the floor of the start of the course, because it was the one that did not make the inconducible car and the slowest of the 10 of the grill.
For Alonso it is enough. He has made magic in these five races from Icola, always in Q3, except in Austria, where he was 11th, because the others continue to improve again. With a small additional push, the Asturian will continue to optimize every return to end at the points almost permanent. He already notified it on Sunday, when he was smiling in the race.
“It has been a difficult year and you have to improve. In Silverstone a new piece will arrive, we want to evaluate it and in spa perhaps too. It will be a second part of the year very interesting, with everything very tight. There is no longer a ultimate team and makes weekends very interesting, “he predicted.
