Sep.2 (GMM) Fernando Alonso insists Aston Martin won’t be able to depend on Adrian Newey to place the crew again heading in the right direction in Components 1.
It’s now extensively anticipated by insiders that the Silverstone based mostly crew will admit this week that it has efficiently secured the providers of the departing Pink Bull technical guru.
“It’s all nonetheless simply rumours,” crew driver Alonso declared at Monza on Sunday.
The 2-time world champion had simply advised the throng of Spanish journalists that he was alarmed about Aston Martin’s present efficiency in 2024.
“We should be affected person and perceive that the massive goal is 2026,” mentioned Alonso, 43. “As a crew, we have to settle for that we’re not within the battle for the highest 4 groups. They’re the highest groups for a purpose as a result of they’re approach forward of us.
“However us being behind Williams, Haas and Alpha Tauri (RB)?” he added. “I feel in that case we have to increase our degree. We have to enhance.”
Explaining his Italian GP, Alonso mentioned he anticipated to be sixteenth or seventeenth on the chequered flag – however finally he managed “possibly my greatest race of 2024” and completed P11.
“Tomorrow,” Alonso mentioned, “I would be the just one who remembers ‘Alonso’s Monza 2024’. Our automotive eats up the tyres, we slide within the corners, we now have no grip. We now have hardly any robust factors.
“Let’s see if there’s a response, some motion, and never at all times coming with the identical automotive,” he added.
As for these intensifying Newey rumours, Alonso warned that there are not any silver bullets in Components 1.
“I feel it’s not only one individual’s job to make things better,” he answered, when requested concerning the rising prospect of the well-known 65-year-old Briton carrying inexperienced from 2025.
“It’s extra about what we now have now, what we’re producing, understanding what’s entering into the precise path, what’s going within the unsuitable path, and making an attempt to organize for 2025 in a greater approach,” Alonso concluded.
