{"id":850228,"date":"2026-08-10T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/850228\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T12:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:16:08","slug":"aston-martin-f1-2026-theory-put-forward-by-flavio-briatore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/850228\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Martin F1 2026 theory put forward by Flavio Briatore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aston Martin<\/a>\u2019s struggles prove that state-of-the-art facilities alone are not enough to win in Formula 1, according to Flavio Briatore.<\/p>\n

On the eve of the F1 2025 season, Aston Martin announced that it would now use its new in-house wind tunnel at the AMR Technology Campus in Silverstone, having already moved into a new state-of-the-art factory in 2023. <\/p>\n

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The team said it was \u201cthe latest piece of the puzzle\u201d in its journey toward a planned championship challenge.<\/p>\n

Despite the huge financial investment, Aston Martin suffered a torrid start to the F1 2026 campaign, the first year in its alliance with Honda.<\/p>\n

The team has scored only one point in 11 Grands Prix, with that solitary point keeping Aston Martin ahead of Cadillac in the fight to avoid the season\u2019s wooden spoon.<\/p>\n

But while the revamped Aston Martin AMR26, with its 16 updates, yielded positive results on its debut in Hungary, Aston Martin still fell short of scoring points.<\/p>\n

Briatore says it is a cautionary tale for rival F1 teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see what the other people have,\u201d the Alpine<\/a> de facto team principal told Darren Cox in The Race Business\u2019s \u2018In Conversation With\u2026\u2019 series.<\/p>\n

\u201cSure, maybe somebody has a better facility. But we see as well the example of Aston Martin, with the best facility in the world, and the best engineer in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not so competitive, you know? <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s only a question of the people need to believe it\u2019s possible to win. Put [in] all the effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alpine, powered by Mercedes this season in a deal brokered by Briatore, sits sixth in the Constructors\u2019 Championship, five points behind Racing Bulls in the battle to finish best of the rest.<\/p>\n

The Italian, who won back-to-back titles with the Enstone team in 2005 and 2006, says Alpine is rebuilding after losing key personnel to Cadillac, Aston Martin, and other teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe lost a lot of good people in the factory because at one point, there was not a clear way to go,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

He later added: \u201cMaybe we have very good engineering here, but it\u2019s still on the bench. I think so.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur technical director [David Sanchez] needs to be really, really looking. <\/p>\n

\u201cNow, we\u2019ve done the first car all together. Now, all the technical part, we didn\u2019t understand who\u2019s good, who\u2019s bad, who\u2019s doing very good, very bad. But now we have a picture.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore, there was no picture, because there were so many changes. Now we have stability.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Now, he says, plenty of those who departed are having second thoughts.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we have people calling us to join the team, to join helping,\u201d he said. \u201cBefore, everybody was taking opportunities, Cadillac, Aston Martin, et cetera, et cetera.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, a lot of people want to come back. For the moment, no. I don\u2019t want anybody, the people left, to say a word. I don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n

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