Will the real Aston Martin please stand up? They may be about to if Fernando Alonso succeeds in turning F1’s nice losers into ugly winners. F1 ✍️ OllieHarden
For all their good deeds off track, the team have largely disappointed on it since their rebrand – registering just a single podium finish during Vettel’s traditional Baku revival in 2021 – yet the arrival of a competitor of Alonso’s intensity, tenacity and unfading skillset could be just what is required for the Aston Martin project to finally take off.
The addition of Alonso alone – still capable of exploring the limit of the car at all times, something a latter-day Vettel and the eternally erratic Lance Stroll could not be relied upon to do over the last couple of seasons – may have brought the spark needed to ignite the team in 2023, but even without his signing there would have been reasons to believe Aston Martin are now in a better position to begin to realise their enormous potential.
Already there is confidence that the new AMR23 – said to be another departure from what came before and featuring “a few clever innovations” as deputy technical director Eric Blandin– will allow Aston Martin to put the lessons of last year into practice. In any battle in the design department, however, it will be Stroll’s signings who triumph, now better placed to turn their ideas into reality with their feet firmly under the table at Silverstone., currently scheduled to open in May with a wind tunnel to follow in 2024.
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