2025 Aston Martin | Aramco F1 Team

[RedNEO]

P4/P5 is nice but even if it was qualifying’s result it would only get exciting if they can maintain that pace all weekend into the race. I don’t like flash in the pan performances that lead to nothing. Hopefully it’s not just a track thing and they understand the updates now.

[Xyz22]

A good performance here would mean the car actually has quite a bit of downforce, just not very efficient.

[RedNEO]

A good performance here would mean the car actually has quite a bit of downforce, just not very efficient.

Track doesn’t really do straights.. checks out

[SSJ4]

A good performance here would mean the car actually has quite a bit of downforce, just not very efficient.

i need someone to confirm. but this would be the first weekend they've used the silverstone update with the new front wing from spa. Thats if they're both running that package

[Rikrikrik]

After Alonso said last week they always run 100% in qualy while the other no, i dont care about FP1 result. I dont think we will come to Q3. Aston always run bad on saturdays than fridays, or, other team always improve during friday night, Aston never will improve it from friday. Could be the "simulator issues" Newey talks about it

[-wkst-]

A good performance here would mean the car actually has quite a bit of downforce, just not very efficient.

That’s exactly it and can be seen the whole year already. They can also focus on slow corners in Budapest and don’t need to balance it with high speed corners like elsewhere, where the team is not good at.

[diffuser]

A good performance here would mean the car actually has quite a bit of downforce, just not very efficient.

That’s exactly it and can be seen the whole year already. They can also focus on slow corners in Budapest and don’t need to balance it with high speed corners like elsewhere, where the team is not good at.

I would agree with that assessment.
So either they have really efficient wings or the big barn door rear wing helps suck air through the diffuser and floor. Leading to the Diffuser/floor generating much more DF from the floor that it normally does with the smaller rear wings.

[Seanspeed]

A good performance here would mean the car actually has quite a bit of downforce, just not very efficient.

That’s exactly it and can be seen the whole year already. They can also focus on slow corners in Budapest and don’t need to balance it with high speed corners like elsewhere, where the team is not good at.

Budapest is actually a fairly fast circuit, corner-wise.

It's always been a false myth that Monaco and Budapest were similar in characteristics. Not at all. Main comparison is that they're smaller tracks without much in the way of straights, encouraging very high downforce package. But that's about it. Monaco is a street track with most every corner being slow. Hungary is a smooth race track with tons of curvy, medium speed corners with plenty of fast changes of direction required.

Or in other words - aero matters a lot in Hungary, while much less so in Monaco.

[zoroastar]

hungary definitely seems like a bad track to drive if you have a back injury. a lot of high g corners in quick succession. its pretty physical

[Rikrikrik]

TV in my coutry said now those rumors about floor last week could be real, in the f1 official channel they said before FP3 those rumors. It seems that Aston Martin took the wrong floor to Belgium, but they did not confirm when asked it

[SchuMassa]

Fernando is struggling

[SSJ4]

solid lap on mediums that have been used for several laps. are we running the new silverstone floor and wing?

[Rikrikrik]

solid lap on mediums that have been used for several laps. are we running the new silverstone floor and wing?

Yeah, i dont have any hope because was confirm they focus 100% on qualy pace. Probably tomorrow we will suffer like a hell on race pace.

[SSJ4]

apparently imola floor was used for fp3.

[Alo_Fan]

apparently imola floor was used for fp3.

Man, this reminds me of back end of 2023 and 2024, just trial and error. Hope we are best of the rest in quali and race though