about Aston Martin it’s almost a miracle. From being a team in the middle of the table backwards last season, to fighting for the podiums in this 2023. Three chains already Fernando Alonsoa fact that he had not achieved for many years in Formula 1 (his time at Ferrari).
And the paddock, of course, looks at Aston Martin, which has become the inspiration for all those who are forced to reset. It is the case of McLaren. Zak Brownhead of the team, believes that they are an example of what must be done at the factory.
“You look at Aston Martin and he has done a fantastic job. It started at the beginning of last year and they clearly continued on that path,” said the head of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.
He announces improvements for Baku, where all the teams will develop their cars considerably: “We have some good upgrade packages coming up, but so do the other teams on the grid. I anticipate that we will finish the season much stronger than we started it.”
Since the preseason McLaren assumed its reality. They were not going to be where they were last year and they would have to row to reach at least the middle zone of the table: “We knew, as we said in the presentation, that we were not where we wanted be at the beginning of the year”.
And the problems seem to come from afar. Because Zak remembers what happened from last summer: “I didn’t like our pace of development during the second half of last year. I didn’t feel like we were making progress.”
“I felt that we were not evolving at the rate that we need to. So, when we had the change of director of our team, I asked Andrea (Stella) to investigate why and he restructured the department. That was a work in progress over the winter,” he said.
