Aston Martin can start to see the light at the end of the tunnel. The car, the second best in the World Cup until Canada, has seen how its privileged situation is no longer such after some tests in which it is not that they are no longer just behind Red Bull, but that they are the fifth car on the grid.
Yes because mercedes and ferrari They have done their homework well. And because McLaren has worked the great miracle of the F1 mid-season. Those from Woking have taken a tremendous leap forward. Such has been the leap that they seem to be Red Bull’s biggest opposition.
On the opposite side, Aston Martin. The Silverstones they no longer hide in track conditions. They no longer hide behind Austria or the United Kingdom. Because what happened in Hungary was not expected. Because there they should have gone well. And no, it wasn’t like that. They had no fight with those above. They could not fight with those above.
Now there is Spa, a circuit that worries Aston Martin. To a team that, yes, seems to have found the reason for its ills after that Canadian Grand Prix.
And despite how well they did at Gilles Vileneuve, at least with Alonso, everything seems to have started there.
Everything, by the pontoons
The sidepods they carried on the North American track have reportedly caused a disturbance in the aerodynamic flow to the rear of the car. That would have caused problems in the temperature of the brakes, and also a more nervous car.
And, therefore, more complicated to drive, leaving those great virtues of the AMR23 in a slow corner, under braking and in a large entrance and exit of the curve.
Who knows if they can solve their problems and not for Spa, because there are few days left, but for when the second part of the World Cup arrives. Will be on Zandvoortin the Netherlands, where it runs after the summer break.
