2026 Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team

[GhostF1]

Watching Stroll sit on the back of Albon for 24 laps in the sprint, trying the exact same, predictable move endlessly was frustrating. More so when Alonso caught up and immediately lost 0.5-0.8 per lap in the train.
Alonso Q2 was extremely achievable, the team let him down there. I don't really know what to say about Stroll, his pace compared to Alonso is woeful.

The on paper results are disappointing, but there's been some clear big steps made. Considering Zandvoort is a power track and they are no longer miles off, it's encouraging. My concern is improvements from here on will be much smaller and in line with everyone else making gains.

[makecry]

I am going to maintain, if Honda's upgrade is eventually capable of 30bhp on ICE, this car will be at top of then midfield by the end of the season.

[SSJ4]

Looking at the telemetry of Alonso and strolls best qualy Laps

Stroll is 14&10 km/h quicker than Alonso on the the final straight of the lap. Is it due to software related stuff?

[Ashwinv16]

Tell me one thing, I think you cannot deploy more that 11.5 MJ (7.5MJ max recharge during lap + 4 MJ full battery that you begin lap with) during quali lap using battery any car.

But ICE can deliver more power as much as it can like using quali map? if AMR is able to deploy 11.5 MJ then ICE must be the differentiator when compared to other midfield teams at least in quali.

Looking at the telemetry of Alonso and strolls best qualy Laps

Stroll is 14&10 km/h quicker than Alonso on the the final straight of the lap. Is it due to software related stuff?

Yeah no, the problem is the Honda unfortunately managed to go past the 7.5Mj recharge due to drivability issues and well problem with the software and well due to more power from the Honda. On Alonso side on his fast laps this became a issue in sector 3 where he couldn't deploy the batteries cause well he exhausted the recharge so had practically no energy for sector 3. (this is the talk of missed downshifts). Stroll had problem at the start of the lap where he didn't have enough battery, although he eventually set one the car continue to over recharge due to error on the coding. Software coding issue due to there being more power, the ecu recharged the car like it didn't. However this is at max The car had another 2-4 tenths in pace. Not like a second difference.

[604gtir]

while i understand everyone is frustrated with the lack of peak power, it seems they have enough power now in race conditions to have a lot more deployment than before. I take this as a positive sign, while peak is important for quali, the earlier races they'd just run out of deployment 2 laps in and everyone would disappear down the road.

[Waz]

There's still a lot of fine tuning to come. Plenty to figure out. Deployment maps are complicated, even with machine learning.