Mike Krack says Aston Martin has to be humble in F1 2025 after two years of not delivering performance, as he feels the field will be closer.
After a lacklusture performance in 2024 F1 season and the regulations more or less remaining the same in 2025, it will be difficult for Aston Martin to recover as such. They can only do much since the focus will also be on the bigger changes in 2026, where they can gain more.
But team boss Krack doesn’t think they will let 2025 slip like that. He knows that the task is big, which is why he wants the team to be humble and take one step at a time in terms of improvement. “No, no, we cannot afford to let 2025 slip,” he said to media.
“But I think we have now delivered two years in a row, not really the performance we wanted. So, I think about 2025, we need to be humble. We need to take a humble approach, try to solve one step after the next issues that we had in 2024.
“Because the cars are quite mature now and there is still quite some big differences between the cars. But everybody has reached a level of maturity that I think we don’t have. And I think this is something that we really have to catch up,” summed up Krack.
He expects the field to bunch up in 2025 especially at the front since the gap between the front-running teams is less. But he fears that the gap between the midfield teams was large in 2024, the gains will have to be large for outfits to close up and reacting to changes will be key.
At the moment, they are not defining any targets per se. “I think the field will bunch up further because at the front the gains will be smaller and at the rear the gains logically will be a little bit higher,” said Krack. “And you have to be able to react because sometimes maybe you will be very close to making two or three positions even.
“And that makes a huge difference. So, that is what I mean, you will have to balance. But then also you have to be quick in terms of reacting, but you have also to understand what you are doing. And I think over the last one and a half year, we have struggled with that. So that is something that we have to be really careful.
“When you are where we are, and you have to say, like, go down to make it nicer, it’s a tough call, isn’t it? But that is why we have people in place to make these calls. It is certainly a tough call to define targets, based on where we are now. But we are defining them, we have defined them. And it’s about trying to achieve them,” summed up Krack.
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