Fernando Alonso has vowed that Aston Martin will not pull back from Adrian Newey’s aggressive design philosophy – as it believes it will unlock more performance.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The AMR26 has struggled so far in 2026 through a lack of power from the Honda engine, but also through chassis problems, including concerns with the gearbox, built in-house for the first time by the team, losing sync at low-speed.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Alonso did manage to score a point in Monaco, but the car proved to be well off the pace in Barcelona, prompting an apology to the fans from chief trackside officer, Mike Krack.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The team has not delivered any major upgrades to the car as yet, with a huge package set to be delivered later in the summer.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Discussing the design philosophy of Newey, the most successful designer in F1 history, Alonso labelled it as “finding the limit” and explained why the team would not turn to a more conventional design in the pursuit of more performance.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“That is always his philosophy, to try to find the limit,” Alonso told media, including RacingNews365 of Newey.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“When you find the limit, you go half a step back, and that’s the way it is, and that’s where we are at the moment.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“There are many different areas in the team that we are pushing the limits, knowing that maybe we could find immediate performance if we go back to a more known place, but we prefer to keep this philosophy in certain areas of the car.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Because we believe that it will unlock more performance in the near future.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando Alonso has vowed that Aston Martin will not pull back from Adrian Newey’s aggressive design philosophy –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-755573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755573","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=755573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}