2026 Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team

[PowerandtheGlory]

For a rule change, that was 4 years in the making, to be at the penultimate day of testing having not done a single race sim.. and the drivetrain still breaking. This is utterly unacceptable… regardless of last minute PU design changes.. to be so bad on the gearbox.. shame on you Aston!!

[Rikrikrik]

The other teams and padock is saying Honda has 5% defficit comparing to the others.

[FNTC]

Not sure if I buy that. That would be 4.5 seconds or something in Bahrain. They haven't been able to push the power unit properly yet. The gearbox and reliability issues are worrying too.

[Leon Kennedy]

Leaving aside the Ice, the car has problems mainly with the gearbox and boy also the front suspension (at least you can fix that). In Australia they arrive with a completely different car and I don't know how much it will help if you don't first understand this car you have now. Then we have to wait until July according to the rumors for a decent engine, first they tell us to wait until 2026 and now July, then 2027 directly .

Guys, let's always hope for the best, we were there before and we will be there again.

[diffuser]

aston saying they identified a problem with the power unit and stopped it as a precaution.

They are lying and failing to take responsibility for their part .you could here the gearbox grinding and alonso reving the engine in frustration. These is not a good way to build relationships by blaming the other party for your failings.

That was just the first sentence. The 2nd sentence read that they we're waiting for the Car to be returned to verify.

[diffuser]

The other teams and padock is saying Honda has 5% defficit comparing to the others.

Based on what I've seen of the AMR26, AMF1 doesn't even know how much power the Honda PU really has yet.

[diffuser]

max and leclerc will definitely be beating the doors in to get an aston seat after this sandbagging performance. its epic

Why would Max want to come to Aston after he and his daddy fired Christian from RB? They run RB now

good point. they also seem "good"

Who the F wants the original manchild?

[TyreSlip]

Leaving aside the Ice, the car has problems mainly with the gearbox and boy also the front suspension (at least you can fix that). In Australia they arrive with a completely different car and I don't know how much it will help if you don't first understand this car you have now. Then we have to wait until July according to the rumors for a decent engine, first they tell us to wait until 2026 and now July, then 2027 directly .

Guys, let's always hope for the best, we were there before and we will be there again.

What is wrong with the front suspension?

[Artur Craft]

I´m expecting a very long year here with fans defending Honda like their own life and trying to put the blame on Newey, or anyone else, and claim Honda is great

[McG]

I'm not sure they have a car that can finish the races for now.

But yes they were 1s off last year, now they are 4s off.
Obviously they will quickly gain 2s, but then let's see.

I'm not sure we already had a team this late - expect new comers like HRT back in the days - ?

This is not a new team. Stop making excuses for a team seemingly not doing as good a job as other teams. I can't think of a worse combination than Honda, Aston Martin and Newey though. There's so much wrong with it I don't know where to start.

[mzso]

Engine hit 13 200 rpm during the rev spike.

When he stomped the throttle pedal? How do you know?

PU lost connection to the tires on downshift. Be that clutch, transmission, drive shaft, etc.

But there was no throttle imput by Alonso

What makes you say that?

[Jambier]

I´m expecting a very long year here with fans defending Honda like their own life and trying to put the blame on Newey, or anyone else, and claim Honda is great

Well for now everything is bad:

- Gearbox
- Chassis too heavy
- Chassis setup car is atricious to drive
- Reliability of PU
- Performance of PU

There is nothing good, obviously when you are 4 sec + from the others

[Bill]

I´m expecting a very long year here with fans defending Honda like their own life and trying to put the blame on Newey, or anyone else, and claim Honda is great

They is nothing new in those engines it is the same that have been running for the last 10 years adopted for biofuels so trying to blame an engine manufacturer looks desperate these time

[bigblue]

I´m expecting a very long year here with fans defending Honda like their own life and trying to put the blame on Newey, or anyone else, and claim Honda is great

Well ... what do you want to do, blame Honda for it all? To be honest, no one knows which part is to "blame". Engine or gearbox or integration of both, nor what shape the chassis and aero is in. The overall software strategy and driveability might also be way off. It could be mostly gearbox, it could be mostly engine, or maybe a bit of everything. Fine to speculate a bit and be interested, but the actual team need to act as one, and work hard to fix the issues one by one. Pointing fingers in a big way is what Boullier did at McLaren, only to ditch Honda as they were coming good. Admittedly the current situation is a surprising mess, but take heart that this can be sorted, neither Newey nor Honda are idiots.

[FNTC]

Nothing new? Lower compression, no mgu-etc etc