2026 Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team

[Rikhart]

IMO, the catastrophe of it all is probably the best thing to happen. Forces them to make changes for the better, AMR and Honda and how they work together. It just wont be in time before ALO retires sadly, but in 3-4yrs out AMR will be a force imo.

So being by far the worst car is the best thing to happen?

[604gtir]

IMO, the catastrophe of it all is probably the best thing to happen. Forces them to make changes for the better, AMR and Honda and how they work together. It just wont be in time before ALO retires sadly, but in 3-4yrs out AMR will be a force imo.

So being by far the worst car is the best thing to happen?

yes building on poor processes, poor correlation across sim, cfd, etc etc will not net you a championship winning car. they might be able to scrape by with a competitive car, but not a championship car.

it forces them to reevaluate and change, which they may have not done if they were midfieldish.

[avada]

If they were throwing upgrades chasing performance, it would be a concern for everyone, but all the changes made to the car have been to identify and address reliability problems.

There's no reason a team of this caliber with the facilities they have would need 3 or 4 years to deliver a good car.

Also, everyone knows the targets now for the PU. Honda showed in 2018 that they are capable of delivering a competitive PU in a year.

How did you come to that conclusion? They started disastrously in 2015, and it took to around 2020 for them to be comparable to Mercedes.