Aston Martin Formula 1 team principal Mike Krack has confirmed that the Silverstone outfit will be investigating what caused the suspension failure of two-time champion Fernando Alonso’s car during the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
The Spanish driver suffered his fifth DNF of the 2025 season in Italy after also retiring from the Australian, Chinese and Monaco Grands Prix and the Miami sprint race. After suffering from suspension failure on lap 25, Alonso was able to get the AMR25 back to the pits before the team retired the car from the race.
Krack confirmed to the media after the race that the team was unsure what had caused the issue, and the parts had already been removed and were set for further investigation this week.
“Not yet, we have to analyse. The parts are being taken off and they will go with us in the plane tonight and we’ll analyse everything tomorrow,” he explained.
When pressed for any further information on what could have led to the issue, he added, “No, we didn’t see anything. It would have been easy to say it went wide or anything, but we didn’t see anything unusual.
“That is why I think it’s important to do this kind of analysis properly before you… It’s easy to point the driver, it’s easy to point any kind of incident, you need to stay factual in such situations.
“What we had to do is tell Lance [Stroll] to be careful in that area, and that is all you can do in such a situation. Make sure that the sister car goes a little bit careful, even if it’s not related, but that is something that you have to do. And then you have to do the analysis properly afterwards.”
Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin Racing
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Up until the point of his retirement, Krack felt that Alonso’s race was positive.
“Yes, I think the strategy went really well because everything went to plan, more or less,” Krack continued.
“We knew Gabriel [Bortoleto] in front was very fast on the straight, so we could take his DRS. We were dreaming a bit to replicate the Austria race, where we were in the DRS of Liam aLawson] all the time. And it worked out pretty well.
“I think we called at the right moment to box, managed to pass Gabriel and it would have been quite a strong finish, I think. We had a little bit the upper hand in the beginning on the hard. I don’t know how we would have gone, obviously, later on in the race. Albon was fast, I think that would have been difficult, but I think we could have finished in the points.”
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