Aston Martin Chief Trackside Director Mike Krack has denied that Fernando Alonso was given older parts on his car after his retirement in Formula 1‘s Italian Grand Prix.
Alonso has endured a difficult 2025 season, sitting outside the top 10 in the Drivers’ Championship with only eight races remaining.
The AMR25 has not been the most amicable car to drive for the two-time World Champion, who has squandered points on countless occasions owing to mechanical failures this season.
At Monza, the Spaniard suffered yet another DNF, this time around due to a front-right suspension that gave up on Lap 25 of the 53-lap race at Monza.
The Silverstone-based squad was quick to ship the parts back to base to further investigate the issue, something Krack concedes came as a complete surprise.
“We didn’t see anything,” Krack told media including Motorsport Week.
“It would be easy to say he [Alonso] went wide or anything, but we didn’t see anything unusual, and that is why I think it’s important to do this kind of analysis properly.
“It’s easy to point to the driver. It’s easy to point to any kind of incident. You need to stay factual in your observations.”
When prompted if the team had reverted to an older-spec suspension on the Spaniard’s AMR25 leading to the failure, Krack was adamant that it was not the case.
“For every team, safety comes first, and no team is gambling on any of that,” he asserted, reitering that no team on the grid would gamble with driver safety.
“No team will use old suspension parts because you only hurt yourself. You have no points.
“The teams are so professional these days. You do not take any risk. There are safety factors.”
Alonso counts his losses after another Aston Martin DNF in Italian GP
The two-time World Champion is contracted to the British marque until at least the end of the 2026 season.
He signed up with the Lawrence Stroll-led outfit with hopes of fighting for that elusive third World title.
And while that may still come to pass with Adrian Newey and Honda working hard for the regulations reset next year, Alonso has conceded his fate as far as 2025 is concerned.
“We don’t have any aspirations this year, simply fighting in the Constructors’ Championship, trying to help the team finish as high as possible,” he revealed.
Looking back at the weekend in Italy, Alonso emphatically suggested that he had lost “Exactly six [points]”, and recounted all the previous races where he has dropped points out of no fault of his own.
“I was seventh [in Monza]. I don’t think many cars could have overtaken us. We were just as fast or faster than them,” he added.
“Six points here, eight points in Monaco when I was sixth and we broke the engine… today when we were seventh the suspension broke.
“That’s points bad luck is taking away from us.
“But on merit I think we should have 20 more points than we do.”
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