Aston Martin aimed lead the middle zone of the Formula 1 World Cup grid in this present 2023. It was even complicated, since the team had just been seventh last year and when he signed Fernando Alonso they could barely get past Williams. However, in Bahrain they not only got what they wanted, but even they reached the podium thanks to the Asturian and they had, after Red Bull, the second fastest car on the track.
Yeah, everything looks more than good for Alonso’s project at the Silverstone team. They have shown themselves to be strong, they don’t wear out tires, they are fast, they brake well, cornering and traction are not a problem… and also their a priori rivals like Alpine and McLaren for now they have not shown up for the ‘battle’.
the french they insist that they can be the fourth team of the World Cup. For now, in Bahrain, Pierre Gasly managed to score but Esteban Ocon did not stop accumulating sanctions to end up giving up. His rhythm, low. The virtues of him, unknown.
“If we want to be a leading team…”
In Woking they can say exactly the same, because their first test was a disaster. Oscar Piastri did not finish either, and Lando Norris was lost throughout the Grand Prix. In the tests the same, and everything had been seen coming for weeks.
They didn’t even see themselves as they wanted. But we are talking about McLaren, and Lando Norris. Also by Oscar Piastri. From the United Kingdom, in the words of the English pilot, they are already clear that they have to improve and they also set a date.
One that will be the Azerbaijan GP. This year, Baku will be the fourth race of the season, in a weekend that will take place on the last weekend of April. Yes, there is still time… and to know if the rest will also have improvements for those dates.
For now, Norris has warned and left McLaren a good stick: “If we want to be a leading team we should have started the year with the new parts that are about to arrive”.
“It’s the car we should have started with”
“The car we want will arrive in Baku. It’s the one we should have started the season with,” Norris insists on ‘Planet F1’.
It will be necessary to see if that renewed McLaren can fight in that large middle zone in which Alfa Romeo has slipped in and the one from which he has left, without almost having entered, Aston Martin.
Those of Silverstone seem closer mercedes and Ferrari that of Alpine and others… no matter what they say from Enstone.
