“Let’s not make that mistake.” Fernando Alonso fears that Aston Martin is wrong due to the euphoria of the signing of Adrian Newey

The arrival of Adrian Newey to the Aston Martin Formula 1 team has unleashed the euphoria in Fernando Alonso’s team. So much so that there have even been public speculations about when Aston Martin could start winning. But everyone is missing something: there is a year left in between.

Although there are those who still keep their feet on the ground, and that is Fernando Alonso himself. The Asturian wanted to remind his team that there is a 2025 season ahead in which Newey will not yet be there, and Alonso hopes that Aston Martin does not abandon that year to begin with the cabals of 2026.

Alonso asks Aston Martin to continue competing in 2025

“I hope we don’t make that mistake.”. This is how Alonso referred to the question about whether he is worried that Aston Martin will abandon the 2025 season. It will be the last with the current regulations, and with Newey on board the temptation to focus everything on 2026 is great.

For Alonso, “we must work to improve in 2025. It is normal that 2026 is in our heads. With Newey, Enrico Cardile and some other additions, the future looks bright. But what we are doing now is not good enough, and we have to change the pace in 2025“.

Let us remember that Alonso has a contract with Aston Martin until the end of 2026, so theoretically he will be in the green team in the two years in question. But For Alonso, the way forward is to compete to the maximum in 2025 while Newey focuses exclusively on the 2026 design.

And there are two ways in this. The last three regulatory changes brought great eras of dominance, but while BrawnGP the year before 2009, under the name Honda, abandoned its project, Mercedes before 2014 and Red Bull before 2022 They competed to the last consequences, and carried a good inertia to the new regulations.

“Right now I’m putting all the effort to overcome the lack of rhythm a little, but There are no miracles on the track and we need the help of the factory to improve,” Alonso concludes. And with Red Bull in free fall, 2025 is presented as an uncertain year in which finding the key could have a jackpot.

The big problem is that Aston Martin probably needs a total change of concept to fix the problems with that car. We’ll see if he addresses it.