The 2026 season of the Formula 1 will rest after the Hungarian Grand Prix, but the one before the break is most interesting. Because Fernando Alonsowinner in the Hungaroring in 2003 to open his sports career, he will have some tools to fight. Something that he has not been able to do throughout the course beyond 10º in instinct and piloting. Monte Carlo. Your team, Aston Martinbrings the famous evolution ‘b‘of his AMR26 and the countenance in the motorhome British is different. Now it’s positive. There is faith.
Alonso takes a curve.
BRAND, present in Hungaryhe saw first-hand that different feeling in the team led by the Asturian. They are cautious, logically, with expectations. But it is believed that there is a substantial improvement in his car. This is also how his bosses see him, with a Adrian Newey that will be on the track and Mike Krackits chief engineer. “The key issue is that we have returned to the competition, something we did not do in the last tests. It is the key reason why we are returning. Now, the position is something we will see,” says the Luxembourger. The track will tell it, with a key Friday to draw the first aerodynamic maps and tests with a power unit of Sling that you will notice its deficits a little less in a lighter car, with substantial changes in the aerodynamics and perhaps less radical in concepts such as the rake.
The key issue is that we have returned to the competition, something we did not do in the last tests. It is the key reason and what we return to. Now, the position is something we will see
The green team does not point to a specific place in the table, although that faith does exist. “If we manage to fight for something and start to understand the car, it will be a good weekend,” he adds. It also remains in Sling. Without fear of returning to vibrations from factory work and with a circuit to fight. “In Hungary There will be a car that is less sensitive to power in curves, which in Belgium was happening. But we will study how the chassis behaves in curves even if it is less sensitive to power,” he says. Shintaro Oriharaits chief engineer.
The improvement of the Japanese will land in Holland. Although they don’t put a specific number on it. The 50 HP have appeared, but Orihara It doesn’t put a figure. “I would like to have that figure, but it is a fairly high number. I cannot describe the power in detail, right now it is not a real figure,” he details. The Hungarian team will continue to have a deficit, although they will work to stabilize their situation along with the chassis with new cooling and a different engine calibration. “Here everything comes down to the interrelation between the power unit and the chassis. As there is a higher cornering speed, there will be more impact on the power unit,” he recalls. Krack.
Krack and Orihara.
I would like to have that number (of horses), but it is a fairly high number. I can’t describe the power in detail, right now it’s not a real figure
one more step
The faith of the project Aston Martin It is also going in the long term with the future between eyebrows from the jump in Hungary. “We are realistic, there was a plan and we worked around it. But there are steps to be taken and they are part of the strategy. The improvement is not decisive, but it is a process that must continue within these regulations,” he explains. Krack. In terms of motor skills, it will allow you to work more precisely. “We will learn and it will be positive because we will have a chassis before introducing the new power unit,” he adds. Orihara.
All of this will start from the new AMR26 from Hungary. Which also represents a challenge from the free ones. “The team on the track has to handle them as quickly as possible. Here the quality of the data and simulations is important, but not everything will be taken advantage of from the first lap. Everything must be analyzed and conclusions will be drawn,” says the representative of Aston Martin. His speech obeys the famous correlation and the usual corrections. Next will come the height and angle corrections. With two basic lines. “They are the aerodynamic change and the weight reduction,” he closes.
