Fernando Alonso reiterates that Aston Martin still needs to prove in terms of results in the upcoming F1 races after double in British GP.
Despite the double points in F1 British GP, Alonso is not giving free pass to Aston Martin with regards to its season and the car just yet. It has certainly been a difficult ride but Silverstone saw a much better performance than the previous two rounds.
They eked out double points albeit still behind the Top 4 teams. In fact, they were beaten by Haas’ Nico Hulkenberg as well. In recent times, Alonso has noted that Aston Martin needs to deliver on-track results rather than just raise chatters verbally.
He reiterates the notion after British GP double points as they look ahead to Hungary where they are slated to have another update. “We need to prove it,” said Alonso. “We need to not talk and deliver the results. We’ve been bringing in a lot of new parts to the car and some of them they work, some of them they didn’t.
“So hopefully in Hungary we have a positive surprise. We saw last year McLaren you know showing us how much you can change in a season the car performance. And this year we have Mercedes. So there are two examples that it is possible so it’s up to us,” summed up Alonso, as it becomes a ironic situation where he is forced to give example of the step taken by Mercedes and McLaren when Aston Martin were said the same a year ago.
Lance Stroll, meanwhile, admits that Aston Martin took a wrong step in the development direction and is now paying the price in catch-up and rectification. They have been forced to run test items during the course of race weekends to ascertain what works.
“I think ultimately we took a bit of a wrong direction in terms of development philosophy,” said Stroll. “We went down the wrong path and we’ve slowly been realising that more and more. Now it’s a matter of changing path and then giving it time to develop and get good again by going down that different path.
“We’ve done a lot of exploring and a lot of aero testing over the last 12 months. Every upgrade we’ve brought, we haven’t seen the benefit that we were hoping to see over the last year. I think we’ve learned a lot and now we’re really just trying to execute, fix the problem and make the car a lot faster.”
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