Modern formula 1 has things like that. It leads to the limit and not only for exorbitant speeds, but also by the crazy calendars that leave all components of the ‘great circus’. After Japan and Bahrain, the queen category crosses the bridge of the King Fahd, and arrives in Saudi Arabia. To the madness of Jeddah’s speed, where everything smells like F1. From models at airports, lights that teach that layout on the corniche and a message from the ‘local team’, Aston Martin: Fernando Alonso still believes in them.
Alonso’s new helmet
For the British, Jeddah is an important appointment. His main sponsor is Aramco, and who knows if his future owner. And during an act in the oil offices, Alonso had no view to pointing out that the future is hopeful. “This is a trip that we start, now we are halfway and I think that Aston Martin will win a world championship,” he explained. More specifically, he used the “we”. A reason to believe.
“This is a trip that we start, now we are halfway and I think Aston Martin will win a world championship
Fernando Alonso
Sports, Alonso reaches a circuit where it has always worked. He did it with Alpine, where he left a battle with Esteban Ocon in which all the laws of teammates were violated. Also with Aston Martin, where he came to lead the race and made podium -100-. And with the AMR24 that later remained far, because he signed one of his exhibitions of the last year. Nothing is bad, although in 2025 the thing has not started well.
Especially in Bahrain. It is a circuit that has incorporated the polygraph. No one lies in yields. And the Aston Martin bleed, with the 18th rapid return of the Asturian -only surpassed Bortoleto and Stroll -and a sector hole to sector. In the T1, the worst car. In the T2 it climbed the middle of the table. But it was the antepenultimate again in the third. “We know what we lack,” said Mike Krack, one of the big bosses, but the result was discouraging. The best thing is that Saudi Arabia breaks with all this and presents another type of circuit. The hands earn the way.
Clear deficiencies
Aston Martin Driver Fernando Alonso of Spain Stands in the Pit Lane During the Formula One Qualifying at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain, Saturday, April 12, 2025. (Giuseppe Cacace/Pool Via Ap)
It seems that the car dies in a medium-hectant curve
Fernando Alonso
In the whole, the AMR25 is a car that repeats the favorable points of the 2024 car, but that were not succeeded. Dan Fallows’s work, already outside the structure. “It is a complicated car at the exit of slow curve, but also in the middle areas. It seems that the car dies, and it is a problem that we know left over and that we continue to have this year,” Alonso said. With that mejunje it is difficult to function in Formula 1, although Arabia can be a respite. “It is better for us, but the points are still complicated,” he added.
The war, of course, will have many fronts. Alpine was reinforced in Bahrain and Carlos Sainz warned of the potential of the car. “With Mercedes engine they would be on the front line,” he analyzed. Haas has added with his two pilots and the problems of that premiere in Australia were changed with a total revolution. Williams is solid. “We find rhythm, we hope to keep it all weekend in Jeddah,” says Sainz. And Racing Bulls can return to the front row of candidates. A sea full of sharks in which they must take their advantages.
Faster, softer
Saudi Arabia is a different test. First, it is a long circuit (6,174 kilometers), but grace is speed. There will be three DRS zones (between 17 and 19; between 22 and 25; and after 27), the average speed exceeds 250 km/Hy is played to the security limit. A hand test that could even alter the upper zone, with a more ambitious max more ambitious or a McLaren where historically Piastri has given better than Norris in its streets.
With another factor, the tires. Pirelli has changed the step and will opt for softer options yet -they saw in Melbourne. The C5 is added – a softer compound than Bahrain’s – and could alter the strategy. Normally he only stops once, but we will have to see that gum management. The degradation, of course, decreases ostensibly with respect to Sakhir.