The Aston Martin crisis
While the other teams have been focused for days on extracting the maximum performance from the cars – after all, the World Championship has begun and there’s no more joking around – for Aston Martin it is still testing time. The Silverstone team faced the Melbourne commitment with the approach that the competition adopted between Montmeló and Bahrain: putting in the miles and learning the car.
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In Australia the AMR26 was, along with the Cadillac, the slowest car. Adrian Newey’s team therefore called Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll back to the pits only to send them back out on track a second time with the clear intent of accumulating mileage. An objective they will also have in China, where the Canadian hopes to finish the GP. But the number one problem remains the Honda power unit, underpowered and unreliable (if not dangerous for the driver), with batteries already reduced to the bare minimum after the Albert Park weekend.
Stroll’s words
“We were hoping to do more laps. Right now we are facing many problems. Even just doing a few laps is difficult, so it’s not the usual approach to the weekend, in which you show up and think about competing, fighting for points or whatever goal the car allows you“, this was the Canadian’s comment. “At the moment we are just struggling to get the car on track and have a reliable package with which we can participate“.
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“On my part not much changes, I get in the car and give my best. I think this weekend we need to improve some of the problems we had in Australia and in testing: vibrations, reliability and mileage. We are far behind the competition, even just in terms of kilometers. We just have to try to get on track more often this weekend: it would already be a great result, I think“.
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