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Aston Martin grateful Alonso and Stroll didn’t “slam us down”
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Aston Martin grateful Alonso and Stroll didn’t “slam us down”

By Miles Cooper January 2, 2025
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Aston Martin workforce principal Mike Krack has expressed his gratitude in the direction of his drivers after they largely avoided hitting out at their automobile’s lack of efficiency within the media.

2024 was a noticeably poorer season for the Silverstone-based squad after a 2023 marketing campaign when Fernando Alonso was a daily podium contender.

Aston Martin’s finest consequence final yr was Alonso’s fifth-place end in Saudi Arabia. The Spaniard’s 70 factors and team-mate Lance Stroll’s tally of 24 sufficed to safe fifth place within the constructors’ championship – albeit a world away from fourth-placed Mercedes’s complete of 468 factors.

Revealing his spotlight of the yr, Krack stated he was thrilled that his drivers had remained considerably optimistic regardless of their struggles.

“The spotlight is for me the drivers and the way they’ve coped with this, how they’ve caught to the workforce,” Krack instructed Motorsport.com in an end-of-season interview.

“It could be really easy for them to go within the media and slam us down, as a result of for them it is essentially the most troublesome.

“Week in, week out, they drive it and so they can not change the automobile. They should drive it and so they have all of the microphones in entrance of them. And so they have at all times caught with the workforce. So, for me, that’s really a giant spotlight.”

Though he hardly ever is loquacious, Stroll did state again in June that “it is superb to see how far” the workforce has come for the reason that Racing Level period and he’s “positively right here for the long run”.

Aston Martin grateful Alonso and Stroll didn’t “slam us down”

Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin AMR24

Photograph by: Glenn Dunbar / Motorsport Pictures

Alonso specifically has a historical past of calling his workforce out for unhealthy efficiency, not least with McLaren throughout its ill-fated partnership with Honda final decade.

Talking in September final yr, the two-time champion stated: “As a workforce, we may settle for not being within the high 4 battle – they’re high groups and they’re effectively in entrance of us. However now to be behind Williams, behind Haas, behind [RB], I believe we have to elevate the bar somewhat bit.”

Nonetheless, the two-time world champion can also be proving lifelike. “In Components 1 there are usually not many miracles – it is advisable to be affected person,” he identified. As a consequence, he’s discovering solace within the promise of higher days to return with the 2026 technical regulatory overhaul.

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