It has not been the best run of races for Aston Martin with the recent double-header at Spain and Austria serving as a reality check for the team that was once in the running for wins.
The team is a long way off where it expected to be after producing a car that was good enough for podiums in 2023, while their upgrade packages have failed to yield the results on track that they have seen in their factory with Fernando Alonso believing they made the car worse.
Lance Stroll recently extended his contract with the Silverstone-based outfit into “2025 and beyond” with the team citing his two main reasons why they continued their partnership.
So far in 2024 their results have not been ideal, with Stroll offering some insight into why the team is suddenly finding it difficult to gain performance when speaking to Dazn after the Austrian Grand Prix.
Lance Stroll offers insight into Aston Martin’s problem
Aston Martin has only managed to get both cars finishing in the points three times so far this season, while Alonso has scored the bulk of their 58 points which puts them fifth in the Constructors’ Championship.
Stroll believes their results should not be compared year-on-year and thinks there is an inherent limitation they are struggling to solve with the AMR24.
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“We have many things to work on, of course, as a team we are going through hard, complicated times, we are not where we want to be compared to where we were at this point of last season,” said Stroll.
“We have a lot of understeer in the middle of the corner, we have tried to change the configuration, but it is still our biggest limitation and something that we can’t understand or fix right now.”
“A lot of work is being done in Silverstone to bring improvements in the next races.”
Austrian Grand Prix shows the scale of Aston Martin’s deficit
At last year’s Austrian GP, the team got both cars into Q3, Stroll finished sixth and Alonso finished in seventh place.
By comparison, the Spaniard started P15 and Stroll was in P17 for the race, in what was one of the team’s worst qualifying results so far this season with them around seven-tenths of a second slower compared to 2023’s lap times.
Both ended the race P13 and P18 after scoring no points in the Sprint race on Saturday, rounding out a pointless run so far during the triple header.
The team will be hoping their Silverstone update can put them back on track, after Red Bull sister team RB made significant improvements which has put them 28 points away in the Constructors’ battle.
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