2026 Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team

[Otromundo]

““Lance is of the opinion that he can’t do more than 15 laps before that threshold.

My theory is that Aston Martin is maneuvering to have the option to be disqualified, to avoid either a non-partipicitation fee, or the humiliation of qualifying outside of the 107%.

If they come to P3 and it's looking grim, I am sure that Alonso is fully able to display signs of such serious, but non-permanent, nerve damage that the stewards will be happy to invoke a DQ on the grounds of section 1.4. of the technical regulations.

The stewards may prohibit the participation of a vehicle whose construction is deemed to be
dangerous. Should the relevant information become apparent during a session, such a
decision may apply with immediate effect.

I believe this clause is there to prevent someone from finding a loophole that enables them to strap a Saturn 5 rocket on top of the car, but I do think it's applicable to a car that is causing nerve damage.

100% agree

[auem123]

How does it fit with sponsors?

[NAPI10]

Really impress with Audi; Done a great job being a rookie a team.
Lawrence has assembled bunch of Jokers at AM

What is the objective of participating in GP?

[Rikrikrik]

Absolutely amazing, Alonso has a engine problem without did a single lap, now Stroll has problems. What they did? its incredible, they look 5 years late

[diffuser]

““Lance is of the opinion that he can’t do more than 15 laps before that threshold.

My theory is that Aston Martin is maneuvering to have the option to be disqualified, to avoid either a non-partipicitation fee, or the humiliation of qualifying outside of the 107%.

If they come to P3 and it's looking grim, I am sure that Alonso is fully able to display signs of such serious, but non-permanent, nerve damage that the stewards will be happy to invoke a DQ on the grounds of section 1.4. of the technical regulations.

The stewards may prohibit the participation of a vehicle whose construction is deemed to be
dangerous. Should the relevant information become apparent during a session, such a
decision may apply with immediate effect.

I believe this clause is there to prevent someone from finding a loophole that enables them to strap a Saturn 5 rocket on top of the car, but I do think it's applicable to a car that is causing nerve damage.

100% agree

If you're not within 107% in Q1, you can't race.

[johnnycesup]

If you're not within 107% in Q1, you can't race.

It hasn't been that clear cut for a while, but AM probably won't do decent times in practice as well

[TyreSlip]

If you're not within 107% in Q1, you can't race.

Stewards have made exceptions for extenuating circumstances like this in the past.

[AhmerBaig]

Maybe RB were right to let Newey focus on specific tasks that required ingenuity instead of giving him the full reigns ? It appears like a disaster at AM so far.

[edu2703]

[AR3-GP]

The changes that they made to mitigate the vibrations broke the PU?

[TyreSlip]

The changes that they made to mitigate the vibrations broke the PU?

The engine in Alonso's car immediately had an anomaly at startup.

[krich]

Im speechless, we as fans don’t deserve it. It’s not professional at all

[damager21]

Honda PU has turned out to be a joke. For all talks of solutions being applied for this race weekend, the engine wont do even 1 proper lap.

This is an absolute disaster... without major exceptions from FIA and other teams, I dont see how Honda can turn around this season.

[Rikrikrik]

Honda PU has turned out to be a joke. For all talks of solutions being applied for this race weekend, the engine wont do even 1 proper lap.

This is an absolute disaster... without major exceptions from FIA and other teams, I dont see how Honda can turn around this season.

Honda seems to have put a bunch of recent graduates to work on the engine as their final project. It's unbelievable how a company of this caliber could produce something so pathetic.

[TyreSlip]

Honda PU has turned out to be a joke. For all talks of solutions being applied for this race weekend, the engine wont do even 1 proper lap.

This is an absolute disaster... without major exceptions from FIA and other teams, I dont see how Honda can turn around this season.

Honda seems to have put a bunch of recent graduates to work on the engine as their final project. It's unbelievable how a company of this caliber could produce something so pathetic.

Honda did the same with its 2015 engine, but somehow it was all McLaren's fault for asking for a size zero concept. People here are doing the same by solely blaming Newey and not holding Honda accountable at all.

Honda had carte blanche with the 2017 redesign, and it ended up being worse for power than the 2015 one and just as unreliable. To this day, however, the narrative was that all of Honda's woes for years stemmed from McLaren holding them back with unreasonable demands.

On that note, Audi had a respectable debut with decent times in FP1, making them look a 100 times more professional than Honda.