Aston Martin is anything but top in F1. We are well aware of the recent history of team. A team that has made huge investments in the top category of motorsports and for this very reason he has a very clear objective: to climb the rankings to reach Olympus. The longing is tough though. A very difficult task, as it is simply shared with other teams. Team more famous ones who are currently putting on the market an undoubtedly better work. It is the case of McLarenfor example, which turned its situation around in just a few months.
The team of Woking he came from years where he literally floundered in anonymity. A lot of work but terrible results. On this point it is worth opening a brief parenthesis. We are referring to the profession disclosed by Andrea Stella. The Italian originally from Orvieto, Umbriadid not make the departing regret Andreas Seidl. On the contrary, under his mandate the team changed its skin and after less than a season and a half, McLaren he is assiduously fighting for victory, in every Grand Prixagainst Red Bull, Ferrari And Mercedes. An unthinkable goal until June last year.
Aston Martin he did the reverse route. He started the world championship 2023 like a rocket. There AMR23for half the championship, was the only car capable of putting the overflow in difficulty Red Bull, a single-seater that shattered all records in the category. After the dazzling start, updates were awaited, a measure which in the imaginary collective could have granted that further and necessary leap in quality to fight against the amazing RB19. And yet nothing. Technical involution has made its presence known. The engineers surrounded by the legendary British Racing Green no longer knew what to do.
Aston Martin has lost the correct operating point of your car F1. At first it was thought that the update simply needed to be understood and validated. But this was not the case, unfortunately, throwing the English cars into an unstoppable decline in performance so much so that the aforementioned McLarenthanks to the brilliant recovery, managed, in the last part of the world championship, to catch the team of Silverstone in the world championship ranking and then overtook it. In the 2024 things went differently. A car, the AMR24who wanted to erase the recent past.
F1, Aston Martin: two races to become competitive again
The current season does not seem to have lived up to its promises. The level of competitiveness of Aston Martin it is not optimal. The team he made it known on several occasions, especially during the first races of the championship, that the performances were those estimated on paper. It is difficult to interpret these words if we think about the objectives. This is because it gives a possible second force in the 2024the British team moved to fifth place in this special ranking, the last of the top team, leader of the rest of the group. The reasons are different but all have their roots in the same theme: insufficient work.
The plan to bring the team back to the top, where they can at least compete for the podium in every race is simpler than it might seem for Mike Krack. The Luxembourg engineer and sports manager, team principal Of Aston Martin, beautifully argues that they have to solve the problems. This is because, although in a lesser form, like last year, after a few races the performance dropped. A point on which to make maximum efforts to make a comeback. This is the “tactic” of the fifty-two year old. The good news in this sense is this: the team has identified the deficit areas of the single-seaters to be corrected.
During the last one Grand Prix Of F1, Aston Martin it seems he may have made a leap forward. As for Mercedeshowever, it must be considered that the adverse climatic conditions of the weekend spent on the island of Notre Dame he actually helped the team. Temperatures where the AMR24 she found herself more comfortable, showing a good tire activation and management process, undoubtedly better than the Ferrari one which, as we know, “fell” as in China precisely on the tire issue. For this reason the Spain will be important, as the layout Catalan will put everyone to the test.
We are talking about an important field of examination. Krack it doesn’t cause drama. He claims that in the third year of the current regulatory body, the team’s performance is good. Closing the gap with the most prepared competitors is possible second Mike. He knows how to do it Aston Martin. It remains to be seen whether they will succeed. The season is still very long and there is time to recover. No alarmism, in short. A couple of world championship events and the theoretical recovery should become apparent, this is the idea of team principal than in January 2022 replaced the Romanian Otmar Szafnauer.
Author: Alessandro Arcari – @berrageiz
Images: Aston Martin – F1Tv
