Fernando Alonso He has dazzled in the three days of pre-season testing in Bahrain. The Aston Martin has been uncovered as one of the most competitive carseven competing in times with the Ferrari and the Mercedes.
And the development of the car is far from over. The season is long and the green team will continue modifying pieces to find those extra tenths. This is how he has detailed it Dan Fallowstechnical director of Aston Martin.
The new guru has detailed that “two thirds of the car will change over the course of the season”: “The design team was adamant that they wanted to tackle this regulation without compromise, we want to move up the grid and start challenging the top teams.”
“The AMR23 is a significant development of the car that we refined in the second half of 2022, and we have improved it in all critical areas. It optimizes the solutions that we feel would offer us the greatest performance and embodies the joint vision that we have embraced and built together. in recent months,” Fallows explains.
Alonso, for his part, has spoken of “optimizing” the car: “It is clear that we have to change the philosophy in several things related to this car compared to last season. We will need some how many races to optimize it”.
“We still have much more potential and I think we are in a good position for the weekend. Our goal is to progress compared to last year and we will do it step by step,” says the two-time Formula 1 champion.
Next Friday comes the moment of truth. will start the Bahrain Grand Prix with the first free practice. There it will be seen if Aston Martin can really compete with those above and if they surprise at the first exchange with some striking modification.
