Aston Martin boss Andy Cowell has contended that the team’s ongoing struggles in 2025 have not created internal “panic” about its long-term prospects in Formula 1.
The Silverstone-based squad has endured a punishing beginning to the campaign as it lies seventh in the Constructors’ Championship with 14 points from six rounds.
Those points have all come about on occasions when Lance Stroll has capitalised on circumstances, however, with team-mate Fernando Alonso remaining scoreless.
Aston Martin has been on a continuous decline since a surprise surge in competitiveness once the 2023 season began saw Alonso record six podiums in eight races.
The British marque’s plight came to a head in the Miami Grand Prix as both drivers were eliminated in Q1 prior to ending up a lap down as the final classified finishers.
But Aston Martin has remained committed to investing time in the impending rule change occurring in 2026, a venture which design guru Adrian Newey is overseeing.
And with Aston’s next-generation car to be assembled using a new wind tunnel, Cowell explained how the AMR25’s development can help with correlating those tools.
“The field is exceptionally tight, so the difference from front to back is not so great,” Cowell told media including Motorsport Week.
“However, you always want to be at the front, so we’re not a happy camp.
“Are we pleased with the position that we’re in at the moment? No, we weren’t pleased with the position we were in last year.
“We are investing heavily in next year and in understanding what we’ve got, so we’re not panicking about this year’s car.
“We’re using this year’s car as a platform to learn about how to use the new wind tunnel, how to use simulation tools, how to work together to make sure that information flows, and how to focus on lap time.”
How Aston Martin is approaching race weekends
Cowell has admitted that Aston Martin has adopted a long-term view to how it has navigated race weekends in 2025 at a cost to the squad’s results in the short term.
He added: “At the moment we’re using every single race as an opportunity to say: ‘Right, how do we gather more data?’
“It’s more about gathering great data rather than picking up points, because we know that if we can get the three worlds to line up then creating cars in the future will be significantly stronger and we are less likely to drop away.”
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