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Fernando Alonso‘s team will be debuting a new factory, wind tunnel, simulator, and a new engineering team led by the best in the business, Adrian Newey. But all that isn’t enough if the pieces don’t fit together, and at the moment, they don’t at Aston Martin.
Alonso is still waiting for something that isn’t coming
Processes have to be precise, and a good team is defined by its ability to overcome problems in a reasonable amount of time. Today, despite not having the best car, Red Bull is the most advanced organization. What’s more, it has a driver, Max Verstappen, who can make up for a lot of things on the track.
In Aston Martin’s case, the picture is not simple. Its management has put all its eggs in the 2026 basket, the year of the technical regulation change that will last for many years, but they have left the current season by the wayside. And that is affecting them because today they are little more than the last team on the grid. That, of course, affects Fernando Alonso, who continues to wait behind the bell. Waiting for something that is not coming.
Something that has not come for more than 12 years, when the last victory was achieved in Barcelona. Not to mention the possibility of having a car capable of at least fighting for the title. The closest he has come in the last 11 years was, paradoxically, with Aston Martin in 2023.
The fact is that not all talented athletes believe in their chances or their innate talent when everything seems to be against them. Alonso has a nose for it. He knows where the opportunities are waiting for him and he hunts them down like a bloodhound: right to the end. If years and teams have passed along the way, that’s another story and another article. Today, what matters is how the Asturian driver manages to be, as the song says, like a reed: it bends, but always stays standing.
