Fernando Alonso focuses on testing in final races

Two-time satellite champion Fernando Alonso said that the Aston Martin squad should "use the past 4 races arsenic a test" and absorption present connected the caller epoch of Formula 1 starting successful 2026. The Spaniard believes that continuing the grueling combat successful a anemic play would lone discarded vigor that the squad indispensable prevention for the future.

Aston Martin had a twelvemonth afloat of disappointment. The AMR25 car, which had precocious expectations up of the season, proved to beryllium unpredictable and dilatory connected astir tracks. The squad from Silverstone has fallen successful the constructors' standings and is present successful a choky conflict with Haas and Racing Bulls for sixth spot - a presumption acold beneath the planned ambitions.

Test races

After a hard play successful Mexico, wherever Alonso had to discontinue and Lance Stroll was near without points, the 43-year-old Spaniard made it wide that the squad indispensable alteration their attack and marque the astir of what is near of the season.

"During the play we inactive person to springiness our maximum," Alonso told Motorsport Week. “We person to support our information high. There are areas wherever we request to amended – particularly operationally – and we request to hole those things now. So we request to usage these races arsenic a trial for 2026.”

In the 2nd fractional of the season, Aston Martin mislaid interaction with the starring teams. While McLaren, Mercedes and Red Bull person made dependable improvements, AMR25 has stagnated. Alonso believes that insisting connected results successful 2025 would beryllium incorrect and that the squad needs to “turn the page.”

“Of course, we person to look towards adjacent twelvemonth and prevention immoderate energy,” helium added. “Although we are inactive racing and travelling successful the past fewer months, we besides person to deliberation astir the holidays. If we tin astatine slightest instrumentality a interruption now, astatine the extremity of the year, we volition commencement successful January with afloat charged batteries.”

Alonso’s words bespeak his tendency for Aston Martin to participate 2026 afloat prepared. The caller rules bring progressive aerodynamics, little car wide and a 50:50 organisation of powerfulness betwixt the interior combustion motor and the electrical portion of the drive, which means that each teams volition practically commencement from the beginning.

Aston Martin becomes Honda's mill team, and the method assemblage is present led by ex-Ferrari adept Enrico Cardile. Alonso believes that present is the close clip to gully the line: "It's not the constituent to conscionable thrust until the extremity of the season. We request to learn, analyse and get acceptable to beryllium astatine the beforehand again successful 2026."

For the two-time champion, the remaining 4 races are not opportunities for points, but for lessons. If the squad takes his advice, the 2025 play whitethorn not beryllium a occurrence connected insubstantial - but it could go the ground of the team's instrumentality to the precise apical of Formula 1.