2026 Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team

[ispano6]

aramcos fuel is terrible, great point. Ive smelled it from the grandstands, at least 10-15hp less

Newcomers to the level of F1, you know... and the very fact the fuel itself is a challenge.
Perhaps FIA can level the playing field then and use a single fuel? I'm sure there will be objection to that too.

[FNTC]

Stroll being lapped by an audi

[Bill]

Stroll being lapped by an audi

He is 2 laps behind is he driving same car as Alonso or is aston trying to save cost for a bigger update later

[diffuser]

aramcos fuel is terrible, great point. Ive smelled it from the grandstands, at least 10-15hp less

Newcomers to the level of F1, you know... and the very fact the fuel itself is a challenge.
Perhaps FIA can level the playing field then and use a single fuel? I'm sure there will be objection to that too.

How do you know it's terrible ?
You know the FIA imposes min/max bounds for the fuel?
RON octane between roughly 95 and 102
density around 720–785 kg/m³
lower heating value (energy content) around 38–41 MJ/kg

[zoroastar]

aramcos fuel is terrible, great point. Ive smelled it from the grandstands, at least 10-15hp less

Newcomers to the level of F1, you know... and the very fact the fuel itself is a challenge.
Perhaps FIA can level the playing field then and use a single fuel? I'm sure there will be objection to that too.

How do you know it's terrible ?

it smells like popcorn. if it smelled like fried chicken itd be 15-20 hp down. they need to make it smell like french fries like petronas. obviously

[zoroastar]

man too bad alonso retired. with all these other retirements and penalties he may have picked up a point.

[ispano6]

The fronts are locking with softs, on medium speed corners. Engineer saying it's micro-locking on the bumps. Alonso had locking issues on brand new softs too. And Lance's comments to his engineers not suggesting a change is funny. At least he's trying.

They need to get on top of the brake issue.

[ispano6]

aramcos fuel is terrible, great point. Ive smelled it from the grandstands, at least 10-15hp less

Newcomers to the level of F1, you know... and the very fact the fuel itself is a challenge.
Perhaps FIA can level the playing field then and use a single fuel? I'm sure there will be objection to that too.

How do you know it's terrible ?
You know the FIA imposes min/max bounds for the fuel?
RON octane between roughly 95 and 102
density around 720–785 kg/m³
lower heating value (energy content) around 38–41 MJ/kg

I don't know, Madridista said it's terrible. I know from Honda personnel's comments that extracting energy from the fuel has been a major challenge, and continues to be so. Don't underestimate the difference in the quality of race fuel.

[FNTC]

Honda apologists trying to blame aramco lol

[TyreSlip]

Alonso up to 10th in the slippery conditions. Crazy. Hoping for more rain.

It is always fun watching Alonso the first few laps until the straights bring everything back to reality.

[diffuser]

Newcomers to the level of F1, you know... and the very fact the fuel itself is a challenge.
Perhaps FIA can level the playing field then and use a single fuel? I'm sure there will be objection to that too.

How do you know it's terrible ?
You know the FIA imposes min/max bounds for the fuel?
RON octane between roughly 95 and 102
density around 720–785 kg/m³
lower heating value (energy content) around 38–41 MJ/kg

I don't know, Madridista said it's terrible. I know from Honda personnel's comments that extracting energy from the fuel has been a major challenge, and continues to be so. Don't underestimate the difference in the quality of race fuel.

I don't but let's no start jumping to conclusions.

It would be nice to see the numbers. I'm sure the FIA has them.

[GhostF1]

How do you know it's terrible ?
You know the FIA imposes min/max bounds for the fuel?
RON octane between roughly 95 and 102
density around 720–785 kg/m³
lower heating value (energy content) around 38–41 MJ/kg

I don't know, Madridista said it's terrible. I know from Honda personnel's comments that extracting energy from the fuel has been a major challenge, and continues to be so. Don't underestimate the difference in the quality of race fuel.

I don't but let's no start jumping to conclusions.

It would be nice to see the numbers. I'm sure the FIA has them.

How good the fuel is would be one of the hardest things for anyone to actually know or quantify. So whoever said that... absolute nonsense. There is no way to know objectively how good any compound is compared to another without some form of completely transparent analysis across all fuels. Which has never happened. We don't even definitely know who had the best fuel in the last regs.

[diffuser]

I don't know, Madridista said it's terrible. I know from Honda personnel's comments that extracting energy from the fuel has been a major challenge, and continues to be so. Don't underestimate the difference in the quality of race fuel.

I don't but let's no start jumping to conclusions.

It would be nice to see the numbers. I'm sure the FIA has them.

How good the fuel is would be one of the hardest things for anyone to actually know or quantify. So whoever said that... absolute nonsense. There is no way to know objectively how good any compound is compared to another without some form of completely transparent analysis across all fuels. Which has never happened. We don't even definitely know who had the best fuel in the last regs.

The FIA has rules for it so it must be measured.

[madridista]

aramcos fuel is terrible, great point. Ive smelled it from the grandstands, at least 10-15hp less

Newcomers to the level of F1, you know... and the very fact the fuel itself is a challenge.
Perhaps FIA can level the playing field then and use a single fuel? I'm sure there will be objection to that too.

Try it yourself friend. When the Mercedes passed by today i payed attention very closely, Petronas smells really different...fast.. gives 20-30hp minimum. Aramco has to work on that, then they can fight at the top for sure

[GhostF1]

I don't but let's no start jumping to conclusions.

It would be nice to see the numbers. I'm sure the FIA has them.

How good the fuel is would be one of the hardest things for anyone to actually know or quantify. So whoever said that... absolute nonsense. There is no way to know objectively how good any compound is compared to another without some form of completely transparent analysis across all fuels. Which has never happened. We don't even definitely know who had the best fuel in the last regs.

The FIA has rules for it so it must be measured.

Yes very good, that much is known, so obviously all fall within the mandatory range. But without an analysis or any reports on some of the compounds used and why, and released to the public. How could any of us know how "good" one fuel is over the other?

Claiming one gives up to 30 more hp is a complete fairy tale.