Aston Martin knows where improvement needs to come:

— Aston Martin, under new team principal Andy Cowell, aims to address critical weaknesses in their 2025 car, set to debut in February. Lance Stroll emphasized the need for a complete overhaul:

“We need to add downforce in all speed ranges. And make the car more drivable.”

— Reflecting on the 2024 season, Stroll explained that the team failed to keep pace with McLaren and Mercedes due to a lack of car development:

“We just haven’t developed the car, we haven’t put any performance on the car.”

— Comparing 2024 to 2023, Stroll noted recurring issues in both seasons, where strong starts dwindled into midfield struggles:

“In 2023, we came out with a good car, but we also struggled with similar issues to this year where we were fighting top five and stuff every week for the first nine races, and that’s when we scored a lot of points.”

“At the end of the year, the second half of the year, we struggled. Also, last year, we weren’t as competitive as teams like McLaren at the beginning of the season. And then we found ourselves kind of in that midfield battle at the end of last year.”

— Stroll concluded that Aston Martin must add performance consistently to maintain their competitiveness throughout the season:

“We just haven’t added the performance that we needed to add to the car to stay in the position where we started the season.”

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VIA: [gpblog]