Brundle doesn’t see the light at the end of the Aston Martin tunnel: “A nightmare, it will last all year”

Can the break help Aston Martin? The improvised spring break is definitely a perfect fit for the Aston Martin of Lawrence Stroll and Adrian Newey: on a purely sporting level, the Silverstone team is plunged into a crisis that is impossible to predict on the eve of the season – indeed, at the time the team was even considered one of the possible favorites to win the title – and therefore the absence of races should be considered as an opportunity to get back to work, using the extra time without GPs to resolve the age-old problems that are sinking the Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll’s ambitions to compete at the top of the category. According to the former rider, now technical commentator for Sky UK, Martin Brundle, the April break will not be enough to get out of the nightmare that the English team and Honda have gotten themselves into. Martin Brundle’s pessimism “It’s a rather painful situation, isn’t it? It’s almost like putting your finger on the wound but – explains Martin Brundle speaking about the Aston Martin affair during the podcast The F1 Show – I think it’s a nightmare from any point of view you look at it. They are neither fast nor reliable and, in an era characterized by Formula 1 calendars without respite and with spending caps, it will be very difficult to reverse course in time. They must understand first of all how to intervene”. The problem is not only linked to the chassis designed by the working group employed by Adrian Newey – which yet, according to the latest reconstructions, definitely has its problems – but also to the Honda power unit, which has effectively started from scratch after leaving F1 in 2021 and losing many of its most highly rated engineers: “At Honda they have to hire the right people, find the correct path for development. I don’t think the situation will improve before 2027, it’s a horror show and We just have to watch this suffering throughout the year. Obviously, to a certain extent they will manage to improve a little, but sometimes they take three or four seconds per lap. In short, at the moment Aston Martin belongs to a different category to the leaders of the ranking.