Aston Martin’s rise puts some of their rivals to shame while Mercedes' troubles could hasten Lewis Hamilton's retirement... F1 BahrainGP
Max Verstappen started the 2023 Formula 1 season as he finished the last by winning the Bahrain Grand Prix, with Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez in second and Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso in third.
The difference, in Michael’s case, was that he was back where he belonged right from the beginning of the following year, free to chase an eighth World Championship. Hamilton has been insistent that he will remain in F1 for as long as it takes to secure that eighth title – “to take back the Championship that was taken from me,” as he put it in the latest series of Drive to Survive – but there may come a stage when reality interferes with his intentions.
Lawrence Stroll gave the modest F1 team formerly known as Jordan/Force India the money. Then he provided the people – best in class, like technical director Dan Fallows, from teams of title-winning calibre.It couldn’t possibly have failed – not really, with this commitment and level of investment – but the rate of the rise has been astonishing.
Take Mercedes, whose determination to make the zero-pod work has left Hamilton sounding disillusioned.
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