Pedro de la Rosa<\/a> have revealed.<\/p>\n\u201cOur last run with Fernando Alonso yesterday showed a battery-related issue that impacted our test plan with the Aston Martin F1 team,\u201d Honda stated on social media on Friday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince then, we have been carrying out simulations on the test bench in HRC Sakura. Due to this and a shortage of power unit parts, we have adapted today\u2019s run plan to be very limited and consist only of short stints.\u201d<\/p>\n
De la Rosa confirmed Honda\u2019s diagnosis and Aston\u2019s consequent back-up plan.<\/p>\n
\u201cYesterday we had some battery issues on Fernando’s car, and therefore Honda is carrying out test simulations in the test bench in Sakura,\u201d the former grand prix driver told F1 TV in the morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cDue to this fact, and also the fact that we have a shortage of parts, we will be doing very limited runs today. They will be short, and they will be separated by a minimum of half an hour, so that will allow us to really look into the data and be able to test some things in these few runs. But yeah, we won’t be doing long runs today, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stroll indeed ran two installation laps and another couple of two-lap stints, reaching a six-lap tally.<\/p>\n
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Lance Stroll, Aston Martin Racing<\/p>\n
Photo by: Simon Galloway \/ LAT Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n
This setback compounds Aston\u2019s issues; the AMR26\u2019s 1m35.974s testing benchmark is a whopping 1.4s slower than anyone else but new team Cadillac.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefinitely, we are not where we wanted to be,\u201d De la Rosa admitted. \u201cWe have been the team with [the least] laps during pre-season testing. Obviously, we would have preferred to do a lot more, but despite the fact that we haven’t done a lot of laps, we have an enormous amount of data to look into and prepare ourselves for Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s a new set of regulations, everything is new. We have a new partner in Honda, new gearbox, new rear suspension. There’s so many things, actually, that we already have a very good understanding on, and we really know the places and the areas of the car we need to focus on.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it’s not where we wanted to be. We would have preferred to do many more laps, but the amount of laps we have done is showing us a direction for the future. So there’s a lot of work to be done still behind the scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked whether it might be a tricky start to the 2026 F1 season, De la Rosa replied: \u201cYeah, of course it will be.\u00a0I mean, when you start on the back foot, it’s always more difficult.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut, you know, we have great partners. We have Honda, we have a fantastic campus, people working flat out trying to get us to the best possible compromise for Australia.\u00a0And that’s where we only have to work hard based on what we have already learned so far this pre-season, which is a lot, and start from there.\u00a0It’s a long journey, it’s a long season as well, but we still have a mission to be completed.\u201d<\/p>\n
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