Fernando Alonso spoke of a next Bahrain Grand Prix plagued with comparative tests and a job that stayed in the inkwell in the winter. and the message not to give up beforehand. “I believe that in Bahrain, especially after the winter tests we did there, we always stayed doubts Overdue, sure, “he said after Japan’s career.
It is another way of saying that there will be no immediate improvements for this weekend and surely in Jeddah’s next, except for a specific circuit piece to adapt to the demands of each route. Nothing in terms of pure performance.
And then, Pedro de la Rosa, sent a message in a similar direction, when asked about Aston Martin’s new wind tunnel, which began working in the second week of March and that we will have to wait a lot to see if what comes out of it is a big difference.
“We still do not know 100 %, in the sense that last year it is not that there was a bad correlation, it is that the improvements we brought expected that they gave us much more time per return, and then the reality was lower,” said Pedro in the microphones of Dazn F1 after the Japanese appointment.
“Yes, it is true that this year, with the new wind tunnel, we hope that all that correlation, or what comes from the wind tunnel, corresponds to what happens on the track,” he says about the team’s hopes, both to improve this year, and to design the 2026 car, a project to which Adrian Newey will dedicate almost all his efforts.
“The new tunnel has just begun and we have not had time to try an improvement in which they are working now. We will have to wait a little more, to be a little more patients and wait for the improvements to be introduced on the track to be able to answer the question better,”
Miami or imola
The AMR25 will basically the same in Bahrain and next week in Arabia. Then there will be two weeks of Impas to Miami (May 2 to 4), but it is a sprint format weekend. There is only a free 1 available to test and on other occasions it has been seen that it has been a damage and a lost weekend, to bring improvements without time to even take basic data and be able to make adjustments.
That is why it seems that until Icola (May 16-18), the first significant package of improvements for Alonso and Stroll’s car will not arrive. On the other hand, it was already in 2024 and having all the hurry of the world …