{"id":180645,"date":"2025-09-30T18:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/180645\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T18:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:38:07","slug":"fernando-alonso-shares-only-question-mark-he-has-about-aston-martins-f1-project-with-future-success-more-or-less-guaranteed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/180645\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Alonso shares \u2018only question mark\u2019 he has about Aston Martin\u2019s F1 project with future success \u2018more or less guaranteed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fernando Alonso believes that future success is \u201cmore or less guaranteed\u201d for Aston Martin in F1\u2019s new era, but admits that his \u201conly question mark\u201d is over when this will happen and whether he will still be driving for the team at that point.<\/p>\n

The Silverstone-based outfit have taken on new signings in recent times as they aim to reap the rewards when a new wave of technical regulations come into effect in 2026, with Adrian Newey<\/a> \u2013 who came onboard as Managing Technical Partner in March \u2013 focusing his attentions on preparing for next year\u2019s car, while Chief Technical Officer Enrico Cardile and CEO and Team Principal Andy Cowell<\/a> have also joined the project.<\/p>\n

As such, when asked during an interview on Aston Martin\u2019s official website<\/a> if he feels that all of the pieces are in place for the squad to succeed during this new phase, Alonso<\/a> responded: \u201cI hope so. I mean, I’m pretty convinced about that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing is when. That’s probably my only question mark from this project.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my case, driving in the last couple of years of my career, obviously, I want to taste the success of the Aston Martin<\/a> project. But I know that everything takes a little bit of time to glue all the pieces together. And that\u2019s my only question mark.<\/p>\n

\u201cAston Martin Aramco fighting for and winning the World Championship is more or less guaranteed in the future. We have everything that is needed to fight for a World Championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen, to execute the job and to win it, you need some external factors as well: you need a little help from the competitors [with results not going their way]; you need a little bit of luck; you need to execute every weekend well.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut let’s say, in preparation for 2026, we have everything in place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alonso cited \u201copportunity\u201d as his first thought when it comes to next year, with the Spaniard adding: \u201cWith the current regulations, the gap to the frontrunners is a little bit too much, and the energy and the effort that you need to overcome that gap is too much for now \u2013 too much to do in 2025.<\/p>\n

“I see 2026 as an opportunity. Everything will be reset in a way, and then it’s up to us to do a better job than the others.”<\/p>\n

With Alonso recently stating that 2026 is more likely to be his last year in Formula 1 if the car performs well<\/a> \u2013 allowing him to end on a high note \u2013 the two-time World Champion was hopeful that his vast experience in both F1 and other categories in motorsport could prove useful when it comes to adapting to the new regulations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve driven very different cars in motorsport, from rally cars in the dunes to endurance racing to Formula 1 \u2013 and very different eras of Formula 1,\u201d the 44-year-old explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, you know, whatever we find next year in the first couple of days with the car, I’m sure that it will have some similarities with some of the experiences that I had in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, I can understand any problems or opportunities, and feed that back to the team: what could be needed to tackle these.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando Alonso believes that future success is \u201cmore or less guaranteed\u201d for Aston Martin in F1\u2019s new era,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-180645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}