Aston Martin will remain “calm” should the team’s updates at Formula 1‘s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix not inspire an immediate upturn, according to Fernando Alonso.
The Silverstone-based squad has introduced a substantial upgrade package at this weekend’s race at Imola as it endeavours to overcome a torrid start to the season.
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Aston Martin has laboured with an uncompetitive AMR25 package that condemned the team to enduring a humiliating double Q1 elimination at the Miami Grand Prix.
However, Aston Martin harbours renewed hope that the new parts that have been developed using the side’s new wind tunnel will produce a step in the right direction.
But with Aston having encountered several setbacks with upgrades over the previous two seasons, Alonso urged caution when probed on the revisions to the AMR25.
“I think every time you bring an upgrade to the car, there is always optimism in the team,” the Spaniard recognised to media including Motorsport Week.
“But at the same time, we have enough lessons learned already of upgrades in the past two years that maybe they didn’t deliver what exactly they were supposed to.
“And now we go into tomorrow’s practice with a very open-minded approach.
“I think two cars will have different packages, and Friday night we will sit together and review all the data and decide for Saturday.”
Alonso’s calm verdict on Aston Martin upgrades
Having conducted a cross-comparison over the opening two practice hours this weekend, Aston Martin has since elected to run both cars with the upgrades at Imola.
Alonso, who has transitioned from the older spec, has insisted that panic won’t arise at the team in the circumstance where the new parts don’t show instant promise.
“But I don’t think there is any stress to really look at the new package, and it has to deliver, yes or yes, and we have to fit it in the car, yes or yes,” he elaborated.
“We are very calm about it, and we will give the time necessary to the package before introducing it to a race and making 100 per cent sure that it’s a faster car than what we had.”
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