Aston Martin has become the ‘Red Bull punching ball. The Silverstone brand has stood out as one of the best teams on the current grid and the great revelation of how little we have of the season. They have gone from being ninth when Fernando Alonso signed in summer just ahead of Williams to be, in Bahrain, the second fastest car with the Asturian on the podium.
And that has not sat well with the brand of energy drinks. Neither that, nor see that the greens they were already standing out in preseason with tremendous race pace. Taking advantage of the fact that half the factory has been taken to Silverstone, Dan Fallows included, in Red Bull Aston Martin has been accused of plagiarism.
To copy your car. So much so that even Helmut Marko said that in Bahrain there were “three Red Bulls on the podium, one with a different engine”, in reference to the Mercedes that Aston Martin carries inside. Despite the fact that it has now ‘gathered cable’, it has put a ‘but’ and the cause has added, how could it be otherwise, to AlphaTauri.
“They have painted the RB18 green”
Those from Faenza, who have enough with what they have, have affirmed in the words of their boss Franz Tost that Aston Martin “He has painted the RB18 green.”
Now it remained to be seen what they thought of Aston Martin. They expected it seeing the history of dimes and bickering they had at Red Bull with the Mercedes team and with Lewis Hamilton. In a race, just in a race, they have been rained on everywhere. But they are completely calm.
They know what is playing, and what is going to continue playing if they continue up. They look stronger in the next few races, and Mike Krack, the great boss of Fernando Alonso’s teamfocuses on what needs to be focused on.
Aston Martin ‘passes’ Red Bull
“We are not going to enter into dialectical wars. We have always said it. Everything was quite comfortable for them, they only had to put on the obligatory tires, cruise speed and until the end”, he affirms.
It is the following objective: “The difference is still great. We do not know how much they managed or how they did it”.
“Let’s be respectful and humble. It’s a big jump, and it would have been great if we had won the race… but you have to wait. Two, three or four races are needed to know how big is the step”, sentence in words that he has made in the podcast ‘F1 Nation’.
