Aston Martin F1 is struggling to develop its AMR24, like last year, and its director Mike Krack is aware of this. He would obviously like to see better, but he doesn’t want to change everything.
“Everyone brings developments, and deletes part of them or deletes them all, to return to previous specifications, and the subject is therefore not easy” Krack said. “I wish we were in a different position, but we’re not.”
“Maybe others understood faster than us. We must be self-critical, the results we have obtained must not hide the fact that we are not where we want to be.”
“We don’t have to go into total destruction mode as a team, but we have to make sure that the positive results we accumulate don’t hide the fact that we need to improve or that we’re not where we wanted to be .”
“And it’s essential for the whole team, because from the outside you see that you are scoring, scoring, scoring, scoring, but the four teams ahead of us are still scoring more than three or four times as many points per race and that’s what we see in the end.”
Aston Martin has problems in two types of corners, and the balance of the car is not good in each of these corners. But the problems aren’t always the same, making it harder to make progress.
“There are some problems with the current car. It’s the same in all teams, it depends on the balance and the corners. In Baku it’s short corners, in Monza the last corner doesn’t fit. never stops, but we have to improve both, because both are not good enough.”
“I think it’s both, and it’s still difficult to discern them completely, but we need to take a good step forward in both, because from the debrief the drivers are not happy either when the speed is very low.”
Krack is convinced that the team is achieving better results than it is worth thanks to Fernando Alonso: “I think we are not worthy of eighth place in Singapore. To know where we really are, you have to look and analyze properly. But for sure we finished in a better place than we thought.”
“We have our numbers and we make our estimates before the race. In Baku we finished higher because there were problems. But in Singapore, in full transparency, none of our simulations predicted that we could finish where we finished.”
“You could say the forecasts are bad. Normally they work pretty well. We made good decisions, we didn’t get distracted by others.”
“We managed a phase very well where we had a little gap, and that was enough to hold on. Obviously, if we are very similar, it is also difficult for the others to overtake you. But you have to first maintain this position And we also overtook Hülkenberg with the strategy.
