Fernando Alonso is one among 4 drivers but to attain some extent in 2025 (Getty Photos)
is petrified of failing to attain some extent all season amid ’s lack of tempo to this point in 2025.
Alonso is one among 4 drivers but to get after 5 races, following an Eleventh-place end in Saudi Arabia on Sunday. He retired from the primary two races of the season, earlier than coming dwelling Eleventh in Japan and fifteenth in Bahrain.
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The 2-time world champion, the oldest driver at 43, has scored no less than one level in each season bar one among his F1 profession – his solely different point-less season coming in his rookie yr for Minardi in 2001.
But in explaining how his automotive completed simply outdoors the factors in Jeddah on Sunday, Alonso insisted it will likely be “troublesome” to attain factors this yr, with no less than six groups constantly faster than the green-clad outfit presently.
“I gave every part on monitor,” he mentioned. “It was laborious to maintain up the tempo with the vehicles in entrance. We had been simply not fast sufficient.
“P11 is the worst place, in all probability, you possibly can end, and we have to get used to it. It may be troublesome to attain factors this yr.”
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“Right now we’re P11 additionally as a result of Yuki [Tsunoda] and Pierre [Gasly] had contact in lap one and Liam [Lawson] had a 10-second penalty.
“If not, we had been P14. However there’s nonetheless a protracted approach to go.”
, Alonso’s teammate, has scored the crew’s solely factors of the yr to this point – 10 – with a sixth-place end within the season-opening Australian Grand Prix and a P9 in spherical two in China.
Alonso has a contract with Aston till the top of subsequent season, when new engine and chassis rules threaten to shake up the pecking order.
The Silverstone-based crew, armed with a brand new manufacturing facility and wind tunnel amid proprietor Lawrence Stroll’s mammoth funding into the crew, have additionally acquired the providers of in , who began work on subsequent yr’s automotive final month.
Lance Stroll (proper) has scored Aston’s solely factors of the season to this point (Getty Photos)
Aston have additionally been strongly linked with a for Pink Bull’s four-time world champion Max Verstappen.
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Aston Martin crew principal Andy Cowell mentioned in Jeddah: “We’re getting collectively to have a take into consideration what we have realized over this triple-header, and [ask] what can we do going ahead?
“Can we get extra out of the automotive? Sure, I believe we are able to. I believe there’s many areas the place we glance again during the last races and [think] we are able to get extra out of the automotive. Is it sufficient to win races? No.
“However is it the place we are able to push ahead a bit extra? Sure, it’s. We’re studying about this automotive, and we’re studying about all the brand new gear that we have within the manufacturing facility, and the best way to push issues ahead.”
The following race of the 2025 season is the Miami Grand Prix, which hosts the second dash weekend of the yr. Alonso recorded a podium in Florida again in 2023 for Aston.
