Aston Martin, the difficult part comes now for Alonso

Now comes the fun part. Or perhaps the difficult part comes, depending on your point of view. Fernando Alonso, with his usual clarity, analyzed the moment of aston martin, observing how it is much easier to climb from the back to the points zone, or up to fifth place, but how it is much more complicated to climb to the highest positions on the grid.

If Aston Martin really wanted to become a winning team in the coming years, fighting for more important objectives than a single podium or a good placing, it would first have to invent something at a design level, in short, have more valid ideas than those of the other teams. This is more or less the idea of ​​the two-time world champion.

“The starting point is better than I thought, but the difficult part comes now – Alonso's words to Motorsport.com –. I believe that the first step, that of being competitive, or in any case making an exploit and being in the top five, I am also thinking of Alpine last year, is not easy but it is certainly the simplest part of the job. Now comes the most difficult period for Aston Martin. In the next two, three, years we will have to be good at finding something more, something that no one has, being innovative, original. We have done a lot of aerodynamic experiments in 2023 to work best on the next car, everyone has their own philosophy to extract potential from these cars. We certainly have all the elements to understand which direction to take for development, but we must be flexible because what may be effective today could then be obsolete in a few months."