Technical director Dan Fallows has left his role at Aston Martin F1. He joined the Silverstone-based squad in April 2022 after a hugely successful time at Red Bull Racing between 2006-2021. Aston Martin had a terrible start to 2022, but they improved the car as the season went on and missed out on P6 in…
Not quite a fun time for Aston Martin and Fernando Alonso at the F1 Brazil GP. With both cars being severely damaged during an usual Sunday morning qualifying under the rain, mechanics had to rush to have both cars ready just on time for the early afternoon race. Certainly not a walk in the park…
Despite hitting the remarkable milestone of 400 Grands Prix, Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso’s F1 Mexico City Grand Prix was anticlimactic, with the forty-three-year-old being forced to retire just 15 laps into the race after a suspected brake cooling issue caused by debris stuck in his car. While speaking after his retirement from Sunday’s race, Alonso…
FP1 at the Mexico Grand Prix was filled with several rookies taking over drives to comply with the regulations that state that all Formula 1 drivers must sit out one FP1 per season for a rookie who has no more than two Grand Prix starts. Mercedes, Ferrari, McLaren, Aston Martin and Kick Sauber were the…
Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso reflected on his time in Formula 1 as the Spaniard gears up for this 400th Grand Prix at this weekend’s Mexico City Grand Prix Fernando Alonso is set to become the first driver to reach a milestone of 400 Grands Prix in Formula 1 at this weekend’s Mexico City Grand Prix….
The United States Grand Prix revealed the challenges Aston Martin face in trying to close the gap to the top of the midfield, nevermind the sizeable deficit to the top four teams. In Austin, Fernando Alonso managed to finish in P13, extracting everything he could from the AMR24 despite the car’s limitations. He qualified a brilliant P8, beating faster car…
This weekend’s Austin GP marked the return of Liam Lawson to the grid. The 22-year-old New Zealander has replaced Daniel Ricciardo in a much-discussed late-season swap at VCARB. The weekend also saw the return of the sprint format, which left Lawson with only one practice session before heading into Qualifying for the sprint. The 22-year-old…
After only qualifying P14 for the United States Sprint, Fernando Alonso hauled the Aston Martin in Q3 for Sunday’s race. The two-time World Champion has qualified P8 for the Grand Prix. When asked where the Aston Martin improved from Sprint Qualifying, Alonso quickly stated that the improvement happened all over the lap. He further explained…
Two days ago, DAMS Lucas Oil confirmed that Jak Crawford remains one of their drivers for next season. Since December 2023, he is part of the Aston Martin Driver Development Programme and hopes to be the next Formula 1 driver from the United States. The 19-year-old currently sits in fifth place in the Driver Standings…
Formula 1 has recently experienced an unusual streak of nine consecutive races without the appearance of a Safety Car. This marks the longest drought since the gap between the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix and the 2004 Spanish Grand Prix, with even the notoriously chaotic Singapore Grand Prix being completed without a single Safety Car deployment….
