Aston Martin's pace in the Bahrain F1 pre-season test caught the attention of its rivals. But has the team really managed to build a competitive car that can keep its star signing Fernando Alonso happy? Analysis:
That was the view of rivals and pundits who crunched the numbers after the three days of running at Sakhir.late on the final day that caught the eye, the Spaniard running a medium/hard/medium tyre combination that saw him get faster and faster.
“We had our plans of what we wanted to do over the three days,”said team principal Mike Krack after the test ended. “We had a little bit of an issue giving the first red flag of the test, and everybody looks at each other, ‘Oh, this is not a good start.’ Despite the evidence on the timing screens, Krack urged a note of caution, suggesting that the AMR23 was flattered by circumstances, and especially the fact that a well-rubbered track had helped Alonso’s final run.
“Yeah, but these dynamics that you can sometimes get, like someone says it's very good,” Krack noted. “And then someone says it's good, and it's very good… It's like when the word goes around the children at school. So we I think we need to keep our feet on the ground. The AMR23 has been developed under technical director Dan Fallows and his fellow new recruits, including formeraero man Eric Blandin. As such it pretty much represents a clean sheet of paper design, an attempt to make a significant leap forward in one go.
“The money you have to develop the car is really not high. So you have to start with a good baseline. And I think that was one of the objectives. “He tried things where maybe sometimes he would say, this is not the right thing to do now, but it is something that he wanted to have the information on, because he knows that maybe in Melbourne he might need something like this, or in another race track, you might still need something like that.
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