2023-07-12 10:35:25
It has not been an easy weekend for Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin. The results of Alonso and Stroll in Great Britain confirm the loss of hegomony as the second team behind Red Bull and their results have worsened significantly in the last four grands prix. The step forward that the rest of the teams have taken is beginning to worry the green team, which is already ruling out the idea of being able to catch up with Red Bull.
Despite this, the Asturian driver does not give up and hopes to make a qualitative leap in the next three races, as shown by the message of encouragement sent to his team and his obsession with helping the factory to improve the performance of his car.
The Asturian driver predicts better coming weeks and this is what he lets the rest of the Formula 1 grid know. After seventh place at Silverstone, home of the Aston Martin team, Fernando Alonso has made a statement of intent for the upcoming races . The Hungarian GP and the Belgian GP are marked in red for the driver who wants to return to the level of the start of the season before the month-long break in August. “Now better weekends are coming, don’t worry,” says Fernando Alonso.
And to achieve his goal, the Asturian works tirelessly together with the engineers to try to give the car the desired pace. In this sense, Tom McCullough has revealed the time that Fernando Alonso has spent at the Aston Martin factory since the end of the race in Austria: “On Sunday night he showed up here. Between that day and Silverstone he has been at the factory every the days”. A motivation that has not waned after the disappointment of the British GP. Alonso, who is still determined to get his 33rd title in the F1 World Championship, did not miss the factory on Monday. “On Monday morning he was in the simulator and in the afternoon he went to the design offices of the new factory, which he had not yet had the opportunity to see. And on Tuesday, he used the simulator again,” he revealed. McCullough in a statement to ‘Motorsport-Total’.
However, despite his obsession with improving the performance of his AMR23, the driver has received a new jug of cold water from McCullough himself who has admitted that there will be no improvements in the next two races. “We’re going to go to the next couple of races with the car we have, but then we’ll bring the things that are there as soon as we can, and that will make the car faster. We still have a lot of updates, so we’ll continue to do that,” he said.
“We have seen the strengths of the team in the first races, but all the teams have been working on the efficiency of the wind tunnel, and that is where the path of development of the car will go. At the end of the day, it is about being ready,” admits McCullough.
Therefore, the development work carried out by Aston Martin in recent weeks will begin to be reflected in the AMR23 from the Dutch Grand Prix, which takes place on the last weekend of August. Instead, at the Hungaroring and Spa-Francorchamps races, the car will remain unchanged.
After the Silverstone blow, Mike Krack said there would be “some new parts in Budapest, some in Spa, some in Holland, so it’s continuous improvement.” But it is clear that this will not be the case and the Spaniard will have to make an effort to get the best out of his current car.
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