They accused Aston Martin from Red Bull of having “copied” his car. They backed down and recognized that it was not true. He AMR23 It is not a copy of any other car. It is simply a “base” car in which they have found performance from minute one.
A performance that celebrates in style Fernando Alonso: podium in Bahrain and podium in Saudi Arabia. More in two races than in two years behind the wheel of the Alpine. At 41, he continues to show that with a competitive car, he will be among the best.
What is the secret of the green team? Aston Martin Performance Director, Tom McCulloughit says that the “Aston Martin style”. Something that according to him he has created Dan Fallows, the new guru at Silverstone.
“I wanted to do what Dan calls the ‘Aston Martin way’, which is to listen to everything, listen to everyone in the team, be given all the different ways to develop a car and then see where we need to improve and see what we think is. the best way to do it,” he says of the work of Fallows and of Eric Blandincoming from Mercedes.
“That’s something that I think Dan has been very good at, saying that you always have to watch what others are doingbut you have to do it your way if you want to beat them,” he details.
And he talks about the work of the two designers: “That has been Dan and Eric’s mantra from the start, from the aerodynamic and conceptual point of view. That’s the reality, and that’s why the cars are quite different in many areas.”
A job that has worked perfectly. And this is only the beginning. Because Aston Martin has given a jump that is not usual in F1. It almost never happens that a team from the back changes in a year and without a new regulation in between to be fighting with the best.
They have done it in the green team. Fernando Alonso dreams, who even sees himself capable of competing at Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez.
