Alonso admits that missing Stroll's feedback about the new AMR23 during the Bahrain F1 test has hurt Aston Martin 'a lot'.
Stroll had to miss last week's Bahrain test due to a wrist injury, leaving Alonso and rookie Felipe Drugovich to undertake the initial sorting and development work on the new car.
While the Spaniard drove last year's AMR22 in November's Abu Dhabi test and in recent Pirelli 2024 tyre development running, Stroll had a full season of race experience with the car."We are learning a lot about the car, I think this car is very different compared to last year," said Alonso at the end of the Bahrain test."We are changing a lot of things.
"So brake pedal feeling, power steering...all these things I don't know if this is a legacy from the team, or is just new on this car. So yeah, we cannot do it without him, so I hope he can come back soon." "I think so far the car was responding well to the set-up changes," he said."It was doing what we were expecting. The only thing is that the baseline set-up from last year is pretty much useless, because we operate in a very different window with this car.
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