Think about sparing no expense to win. To buy the use of a prestigious brand – Aston Martin -, to make its factory the most cutting-edge in the entire Formula 1 – that of Silverstone -, to stock up on leading technical figures – the legendary Adrian Newey and Enrico Cardile -, to have a two-time world champion behind the wheel – Fernando Alonso -, to make an agreement with a top engineer capable of winning 49 GPs in the last 4 years – Honda.
To aim for the regulatory revolution of 2026 as the turning point for moving towards collection.
What could possibly go wrong?
Here you are, a Formula 1 car without an engine to match no, it really can’t go on the track.
A bit like the football team of Paris Saint Germain – often compared in the last two years to Aston Martin F1 for the pharaonic purchasing campaign – had sent talents onto the field in recent years stolen by the sound of millions (three above all, Lionel Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappé) barefoot.
Here, Aston Martin is metaphorically a barefoot footballer.
In Australia Stroll and Alonso combined for 3 laps in FP1, like the HRT of De la Rosa and Karthikeyan in 2012. A good sporting defeat.
Honda in the dock, no ifs or buts. A ‘jokes aside’ scenario: only 2 batteries available to the team, there are no spare parts; 70% of HRC staff currently employed in Tokyo had never worked in Formula 1; crazy vibrations that make the passenger compartment compare to an electric chair.
And Alonso finds himself back in the Honda mess ten years later, with his dream of driving Adrian Newey’s car quickly threatening to turn into a nightmare…
