The signing of Fernando Alonso by the Aston Martin team for the 2023 Formula 1 season was something that came as a surprise to the paddock, and since then there has been much talk about the union of the two-time champion with the Silverstone team. New technical regulations introduced earlier in the year opened up the opportunity for the Brits to make a car that would be a contender for the top positions, but the inaugural Bahrain Grand Prix gave them a reality check.
The first appointments of the course showed that the concept adopted in the AMR22 was not the correct one, and they crawled for the last places in the classification. However, starting with the Spanish Grand Prix, the English put on the track an evolution that has many similar points with the design of the Red Bull RB18 that is sweeping the top category of motorsport so much and that, for the moment, is causing Aston Martin are slowly moving up the standings as they only missed out on the points at the Austrian event.
The technical curiosities of what will be his new single-seater in 2023 caught the attention of Fernando Alonso in the most recent race, in Zandvoort, and the Asturian driver got out of his Alpine to check the entire side, in addition to the diffuser and the front wing on the Silverstone car park ferme. With a akimbo pose, the Spaniard carefully observed the design of the engineers that Dan Fallows will direct when he lands in the British team.
That was not the only car that the two-time world champion noticed, since the onboard cameras that Formula 1 allows to see through F1TV showed the Spaniard and his future partner, Lance Stroll, fixing their eyes on the reference of the grill, the RB18 . The drivers may not be able to draw any conclusions about Red Bull, but at least they know which car they need to follow to achieve the result they expect in the long term with the investment they are making in Aston Martin, who will have a new factory in the first quarter of the next course of 2023.
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