Fernando Alonso thinks Aston Martin ought to tweak its objectives for the remaining ten races of the 2024 season.
This 12 months, after a extremely promising 2023, the Silverstone primarily based crew – and its 43-year-old prime Spanish driver – has taken a serious step backwards.
“It’s been up and down,” Alonso stated at Zandvoort, additionally admitting a number of the blame. “I’m not tremendous proud of my season. However I’m rather a lot happier than individuals assume.
“I don’t know what individuals count on generally when the automotive is preventing with the midfield groups and I nonetheless rating good factors. Lance (Stroll) is doing an unimaginable job this 12 months, however once I learn some information, that it’s one among my worst seasons, I’ve twice as many factors as him,” Alonso added.
Aston Martin arrives on the Dutch GP fifth within the constructors’ standings – however a good distance behind Mercedes and with greater than double the factors tally of RB.
“The goal is, what, ninth and tenth in each race?” Alonso stated. “That’s what we’ve striving for. The highest 4 are 30 to 45 seconds forward of us in each race.
“To be within the prime eight we’d like a retirement from the vehicles forward. So these are the targets however we’ve got rather a lot to check, quite a lot of concepts on the automotive that we wish to attempt in preparation for subsequent 12 months’s automotive,” he continued.
“So what can be my largest motivation or my largest concern for the final ten races – to have a superb understanding of most of the unknowns we’ve got and end the season with a transparent thought. It doesn’t matter if we’re within the factors or not, however we’d like to verify we begin on the correct path subsequent 12 months.”
In the meantime, hypothesis is now hardening that Adrian Newey will virtually definitely be heading to Aston Martin as soon as his Pink Bull duties conclude early subsequent 12 months.
Alonso was requested by Spanish reporters forward of the Dutch GP if he’s assured Newey can even be sporting inexperienced in 2025 and past.
“I’ve the identical confidence as once I wakened in Monaco at some point and so they stated there was a press convention at 12 o’clock asserting that he’s becoming a member of Ferrari,” Alonso smiled.
“I imply, they’re all rumours, and we’ve got so many issues and so many issues to resolve to get efficiency out of the automotive that we can’t be distracted each weekend by the place everybody goes to be.”
