There are too many times that has happened that Fernando Alonso has been planted at the first stop of the calendar auged by shoulders by a current of enthusiasm, essentially promoted by those sectors that are defined as Alonsistasthat in the first great awards he burst like a balloon on a birthday. The immediate reaction of that environment that rows in favor of the Asturian then goes on to try to find that chasco responsible and most darts then go in the direction of the team, for being unable to offer the world -time champion of the world (2005 and 2006) a tool sharp enough to get all that magic inside.
However, there is something different in the siren songs that sound overlooking the World Cup that will roll this Sunday in Australia. With the information left by the only three days of preseason trials, in Bahrain, no one dares to sell impossible or placed the AMR25 of Aston Martin among the most competitive cars on the grill. The internal shaking that the Silverstone (Great Britain) has carried out this winter points to 2026, when the shake that will be applied to the regulation and that, among other things, will mean the birth of the new engines, with an influence of the electrical part much greater than the current ones. That medium -term perspective, combined with the laziness of the car last year, makes 2025 a season rather impla for green cars, and for their sign of the poster, four months after turning 44 years.
“We will need time because F1 is not football. If you join the best players with the best coach, there you can win the next game. Here you can have the best people and the best facilities, but you need time. I hope that in this 2025 let’s learn lessons and we can prepare for 2026, although there are no guarantees, ”Alonso agreed, this Thursday, from Melbourne, where this Friday will begin to clear the doubts.
Logically, Aston Martin’s most colorful signing has been Adrian Newey, the most influential engineer of the modern F1, who officially joined his position only a few days ago. Their designs have given 12 pilot and 13 -building crowns to Williams, McLaren and Red Bull. Among the first, with Nigel Mansell and Williams (1992), and the last one, the last year with Max Verstappen and Red Bull, more than three decades have passed. Its solutions, especially at the aerodynamic level, have resulted in records that will hardly be repeated.
“Adrian has been with us for 10 days. His first day was very discreet. He went straight to the 2026 regulation book, analyzed the details of the work we have been doing, contributed some ideas and worked at the drawing table, ”said Andy Cowell, director of Aston Martin. “I laugh because you have already found some areas [de la normativa] In which he has told us: do you think we can force that point and explore there? ”added the executive, recruited last summer of Mercedes, where he led the engineering part. Cowell will replace Mike Crack, collected to the position of head of track operations. To these movements we must add the arrival as technical head of Enrico Cardile, postponed until July after Ferrari, his previous team, filed a lawsuit in a Modena court in which he accused his former employee of violating his contract.
In this new stage of Newey, most likely its last in the paddock —It has 66 years old, its commitment to Aston Martin is unquestionable if we take into account that he has signed a multiannual contract, with emoluments that are around 30 million euros and that, in addition, he has become a shareholder of the tinglado that Lawrence Stroll manages. What happens is that the base of the car that will be filmed on Friday in the Albert Park circuit was given in 2024, without its supervision. As much as you can contribute your privileged look, your efforts will be projected for a year seen. It will be then when you will have to start putting note, no matter how much everything depends on your line – even draws by handless hand – if we attend to the entrance of Honda in the equation.
Since it was done with Force India in 2018, Stroll has made it clear that his project goes beyond finding a hole to his son, Lance, to entertain. The purchase of Aston Martin (2020) led him to rename the team and to engage in a multimillion -dollar investment of several hundred million euros in the new factory (Aston Martin Technology Campus), located at the exit of the Silverstone circuit, with a latest generation simulator and the needed wind tunnel as a crown jewel, running since February after a calibration period for more than a month.
