One problem leads to another
There seems to be no limit to the worst in this start to the season for the team Aston Martin. As if they weren’t enough all the problems that the Silverstone team is facing at power unit level – with the delays and lack of reliability of which Honda is becoming the protagonist – one also emerged in Melbourne embarrassing communication difficulties at pit stops which led Fernando Alonso to be the victim of a particularly slow pit stop in the little race that the Asturian was able to contest in the opening GP of the season.
What a mess in the pits
The episode was passed over in silence in the days immediately following the race, overshadowed by news of greater magnitude, but the images are emblematic: the moment in which Alonso stops in the lay-by The left rear tire is missingwhich arrives only later taken to a mechanic while the other new tires have already been mounted. All the while Lance Stroll’s other AMR26 is approaching behind Alonsowho in fact find themselves forced to wait ‘in the queue’ for a few seconds.
This chaotic situation was commented on by the team’s former team principal – and now chief trackside officer – Mike Krack, who explained the mess with communication problems at the pit wall. “The pit stop on lap 11 was a disaster – admitted Krack speaking to journalists present in Australia – it wasn’t a disaster from the garage point of view, but from our point of view on the pit wall. Basically communications were not crossed correctly. There are so many channels and sometimes things go wrong. One of the things we have to recognize is that we haven’t done much testing in this sense and it was the first time [che la facevamo] live, in reality, and it didn’t go well. It’s something we need to work on in the future“Certainly not the only one where Aston Martin is in trouble at the moment.
