2026 Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team

[etusch]

AMR is lacking true leadership. Lawrence Stroll is not and cannot be the person to point this team in the right direction. Newey is a technical fellow and Mike Krack is a management head. Currently there is no one that has the ability to galvanize the team’s morale and inspire them to maximize effort. Until then I don’t see much changing for them this season.

I agree about Stroll. Yes, he's ambitious, but I don't know his abilities about managing the Formula 1 team if he were interfere to team managment too much. (That's the extent of my agreement ) But we can't make such a quick decision about Newey. The person I admire most in this regard, and whom I believe brought Red Bull to its current state, is Horner, and he didn't achieve this in a year or the following year. It's far too early to make a decision on Newey.

[Jambier]

AMR is lacking true leadership. Lawrence Stroll is not and cannot be the person to point this team in the right direction. Newey is a technical fellow and Mike Krack is a management head. Currently there is no one that has the ability to galvanize the team’s morale and inspire them to maximize effort. Until then I don’t see much changing for them this season.

I agree about Stroll. Yes, he's ambitious, but I don't know his abilities about managing the Formula 1 team if he were interfere to team managment too much. (That's the extent of my agreement ) But we can't make such a quick decision about Newey. The person I admire most in this regard, and whom I believe brought Red Bull to its current state, is Horner, and he didn't achieve this in a year or the following year. It's far too early to make a decision on Newey.

Agreed, I think, a realistic target for this team is 2029-2030.
(Then again we change engines)

Nothing is working, so they need a few season and Honda as well, and then it can become a top team (no guarantees)

I think this reality will be too difficult for ALO, and I'm not even sure about STR, he might just go have fun in another category.

[Rikrikrik]

AMR is lacking true leadership. Lawrence Stroll is not and cannot be the person to point this team in the right direction. Newey is a technical fellow and Mike Krack is a management head. Currently there is no one that has the ability to galvanize the team’s morale and inspire them to maximize effort. Until then I don’t see much changing for them this season.

I agree about Stroll. Yes, he's ambitious, but I don't know his abilities about managing the Formula 1 team if he were interfere to team managment too much. (That's the extent of my agreement ) But we can't make such a quick decision about Newey. The person I admire most in this regard, and whom I believe brought Red Bull to its current state, is Horner, and he didn't achieve this in a year or the following year. It's far too early to make a decision on Newey.

Agreed, I think, a realistic target for this team is 2029-2030.
(Then again we change engines)

Nothing is working, so they need a few season and Honda as well, and then it can become a top team (no guarantees)

I think this reality will be too difficult for ALO, and I'm not even sure about STR, he might just go have fun in another category.

If Alonso wants to see good results from all this, she'll need to stay at least until the end of 2028; otherwise, it will happen again: she entered a project, it was a disaster, and when she left, things went well. That's why I emphasize, for Alonso, staying just one more year doesn't make sense; they need two. Otherwise, it's better for him to go take care of his son.

[SSJ4]

Aston Martin have definitely not given up on this season.
They are falling back because they have so far brought almost no performance upgrades to their car, while all the other teams have.
That's because they have decided the best use of their resources in the context of the cost cap is to introduce one major upgrade in one go, rather than drip-feed smaller ones over a series of races.
That upgrade is expected around the time of the Belgian Grand Prix - in three races' time.
A revised and improved Honda engine has also been promised. Honda won't say when it's due to arrive, but sources in the team have told BBC Sport it is likely to be after the summer break, around the time of the Dutch Grand Prix.
Aston Martin's problem is that even if that aerodynamic upgrade makes the car two seconds a lap faster - and if it did, it would be one hell of an upgrade - it will only move them up to Racing Bulls/Audi territory.

From BBC sport

[NAPI10]

Aston Martin have definitely not given up on this season.
They are falling back because they have so far brought almost no performance upgrades to their car, while all the other teams have.
That's because they have decided the best use of their resources in the context of the cost cap is to introduce one major upgrade in one go, rather than drip-feed smaller ones over a series of races.
That upgrade is expected around the time of the Belgian Grand Prix - in three races' time.
A revised and improved Honda engine has also been promised. Honda won't say when it's due to arrive, but sources in the team have told BBC Sport it is likely to be after the summer break, around the time of the Dutch Grand Prix.
Aston Martin's problem is that even if that aerodynamic upgrade makes the car two seconds a lap faster - and if it did, it would be one hell of an upgrade - it will only move them up to Racing Bulls/Audi territory.

From BBC sport

It seems, upgrades are coming after summer break
https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/aston-ma ... on-the-way

[diffuser]

AMR is lacking true leadership. Lawrence Stroll is not and cannot be the person to point this team in the right direction. Newey is a technical fellow and Mike Krack is a management head. Currently there is no one that has the ability to galvanize the team’s morale and inspire them to maximize effort. Until then I don’t see much changing for them this season.

How do you know that ?
What about Enrico Cardile????