Aston Martin’s beautiful efficiency on the Hungarian Grand Prix has been defined.
After qualifying fifth and sixth on the grid, Fernando Alonso completed fifth with Lance Stroll seventh as Aston Martin loved their most profitable weekend of the 2025 F1 season in Hungary.
The end result, which got here only a week after a depressing Belgian Grand Prix, lifts Aston Martin as much as sixth within the constructors’ championship heading into the F1 summer time break.
Aston Martin’s drastic turnaround has been put all the way down to key modifications made to the staff’s 2025 automobile.
“So the working dialogue within the paddock is that they’re working a brand new entrance wing with an previous ground,” former Aston Martin strategist Bernie Collins instructed the Sky Sports activities F1 podcast.
“A few of it will likely be circuit-specific, however the turnaround has been phenomenal, given now we have been at excessive downforce tracks this 12 months and the automobile has carried out nothing prefer it did this weekend.
“So, one thing of their new entrance wing – and it is arduous, I assume, for individuals to grasp that only one part or one meeting could make such an enormous distinction to automobile efficiency – but when the previous entrance wing, one thing about how the air was flowing off that impacts the rest of the automobile.
“So if the previous entrance wing wasn’t permitting parts within the ground to work, then a single part just like the entrance wing could permit higher airflow to the remainder of the automobile. All of the sudden, the entire ground is working higher, the diffuser’s working higher, the rear wing’s working higher.
“So simply getting one meeting right – notably entrance wing or a entrance brake duct, something like that that is affecting a number of the airflow additional again within the automobile – it could actually flip your efficiency round fairly shortly.
“We have to go to extra circuits to see that that holds throughout a variety of downforce ranges. However such constructive indicators for Aston Martin.”
Why it left Fernando Alonso involved
Aston Martin have been at a loss to clarify their sudden competitiveness, and that was trigger for concern for two-time world champion Alonso.
“It’s a shock, positively it’s a shock. It is a good shock,” the Spaniard mentioned. “The great factor is that we have been aggressive and we have been quick. The regarding factor is that we do not know why.
“We want this week on the manufacturing unit [before the mandatory summer shutdown] to analyse precisely what are the variations between Spa and Hungary, what are the variations on the automobile as properly, on the set-up, on the aero gadgets that we have been racing with.
“Clearly, the principle theme for us was the entrance wing that was new this weekend. If that entrance wing offers us that a lot efficiency, that is excellent information, however I feel that needs to be understood in the mean time.”
