Evolution. Progress. Advance. Three words that a Formula 1 needs. What a team is looking for, what it wants. For which he works and fights race by race both on the track and in the factory. Which, of course, is not easy. It’s hard. Very difficult. More to do it from one season to another. But difficult, or very difficult, does not mean that it is impossible, and in aston martin they know it can. and Fernando Alonso You also know that you can.
Because the team, formerly known as Racing Point, has shown in its most recent past why it can’t be. Why are they not going to be able to win a race in 2023? Why are they going to have to settle for being in the middle zone when, with the right steps, it is possible to go from seventh place in the World Cup to fourth and almost to third.
Yes, they have. They already have. And for sample, the data. The data that compares 2019 with 2020. That they have a team that was not among the best to see how they were, at times, the fastest car on the entire grid. because the call ‘pink mercedes’ it had a lot and very good in its chassis. And also, of course, in its power unit.
The victory of ‘Checo’, in the penultimate race
It didn’t fall apart as the races went by. They were not a Haas, or a Toro Rosso or AlphaTauri. Because the victory, first in the race of Sergio Pérez, arrived in Sakhir, It came in the penultimate test of a strange World Cup marked by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Let’s go back to 2019. Racing Point, a team that included Sergio Pérez and Lance Stroll, finished seventh in the World Cup with 73 points. Of these, 52 were achieved by the Mexican, and 21 by the Canadian, who will be Fernando Alonso’s next partner in Formula 1.
putting that in 2022, Aston Martin He also finished seventh, level on points with Alfa Romeo. Fifty-five units have added, of which 37 have been for Vettel and 18 for Lance.
In months they multiplied their results by almost three
Let’s go back. Let’s go back to that 2020. To that great advance that the team had. Because if in 2019 they were seventh with 73 points in just one year they finished fourth with 195, just seven behind McLaren and the podium of the Constructors’ World Cup.
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As for the drivers, Sergio Pérez achieved 125 points, including victory in Sakhir, and Lance Stroll obtained 75. Both the team and the pair formed by the Mexican and the Canadian multiplied practically by three the results of the previous year.
Ex Red Bull, ex Mercedes… and Alonso
It is proof that yes, that much can be achieved in a short time if winter is productive. If the appropriate steps are taken and if you have the wickers to do it.
Aston Martin already has, for the moment, the second, with the leadership of Mike Krack and with prominent ex-Red Bull and ex-Mercedes members such as Dan Fallows and Eric Blandin.
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Also, if that wasn’t enough, a two-time champion like Fernando Alonso who seems to be, at 41, in the best moment of his career both on a physical and motivational level… and also piloting.
