2026 Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team

[diffuser]

What happen if they simple overbudget a lot to make a decent engine ? The penalty for this is also money?

The regs say, if less than 5% over the CAP, it's a slap on the wrist.
Over 5% it's serious, take points off, money penalty. Refuse to homologate the new ICE. They can basically do bad shiit.

[Alonso Fan]

Here is Alonso's last lap in FP2 plus 2 slow down laps and the practice start. You can hear the engine vibrating a lot. They seem to be continuing testing things like ramp in 4th gear, and turning the car off on the jacks. Not sure what significance the last one has. In the 2nd video, it's his quali run. It's quite interesting that the vibrations are not as noticeable audio wise albeit with only 1 mic working instead of 2. Seems a lot smoother

https://gofile.io/d/zmOzNE

[Ashwinv16]

Reliability concerns are much bigger this time around, though. It's not just a slow engine.

Also a Newey chassis will undoubtedly be flattering things in a comparison like this.

Wasn't it as big of a concern back then too? I remember it being big news that Button finished the race albeit heavily detuned. They hadn't managed a single race distance in testing or practice back then and Magnusson had a DNS

It was definitely a notable concern back then, but the reliability woes weren't as dire as they are right now. They had a couple DNS' early season and some retirements for sure, but at least had a realistic shot of finishing a race by dialing things down.

As for now, it seems like there's effectively zero chance that an Aston Martin can finish a race distance(at least without being a race hazard), and I'm not sure when that reality might change. Hence rumors they might have to simply abort the race like 15-20 laps in, to ensure they dont burn through parts so much and destroy their cost cap situation super early.

This not the case after FP3. Yes they might not finish but things have become so much better. Its still a goood chance for atleast one car to do 90% of the race.

[Otromundo]

Well, there is little time left to see what really happens with the new rules. I suspect there will be surprises.

[diffuser]

Alonso starting on Softs ?????

[madridista]

Alonso in the Points!

[AhmerBaig]

It was good while it lasted. Softs gone.

[TyreSlip]

There are those familiar 10 second stops we all know...

[AhmerBaig]

Alonso retires. Lasted 14 laps.

[AR3-GP]

Alonso retires. Lasted 14 laps.

He's back out. Just taking a break from the vibrations.

[diffuser]

Guess the battery vibs are fixed for the battery ?

[diffuser]

They're making setup changes and sending them back out is what Stroll's Engineer said. It's a test session.

[krich]

I don’t know how to feel, weird but also this is not F1 and not racing

[TyreSlip]

I don’t know how to feel, weird but also this is not F1 and not racing

Super clipping kills the excitement.

[Rikrikrik]

We had more action in 10 minutes than all of last year. Aston is more durable than i expected, especially Stroll