Aston Martin in great difficulty
The ‘trident’ formed by Alonso at the wheel, the Honda power unit under the hood and Adrian Newey at the drawing board seemed to set great premises for the definitive leap in quality for Aston Martin in this 2026. Winter testing, however, has placed Lawrence Stroll’s team at the back of the virtual starting grid along with Cadillac, a scenario difficult to predict and, above all, especially difficult to digest for those directly involved.
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Riccardo Patrese, who in the past was a Williams driver when Adrian Newey himself was responsible for making the British team’s cars fly, commented as follows on this terrible start to 2026 for Aston Martin, in which the main culprit of this failure is the Honda power unit: “Adrian Newey seems lost – said the former driver reached by talkSPORT BET Slots Site – but I believe the biggest problem is Honda. I read that for at least six or seven months they won’t be able to have an engine that works correctly because they burn the battery and the kilowatts that the battery is able to provide are not enough to have the right power.”
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“If they have to lose six months of the season before getting close to the right engine package, their season is over – Patrese added – it’s a shame because, knowing Adrian well, I know he is a person who never stops working to find a solution. Surely at the moment he will be a bit worried, as will probably be the team owner, Mr. Stroll. He has invested a lot of money in Aston Martin with Adrian Newey at the top of the program. What really worries me is the impact on Adrian Newey at Aston Martin, because he is a friend of mine and a fantastic engineer. Probably this year will be a complete failure for them, because Honda is not able to provide the battery charge necessary to have the required power. I hope Adrian can return to dominating as an engineer, as he has done for the last 30 years, but it seems that this year the car will not be able to be competitive.”
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