Without intimate knowledge of last year's Aston Martin, Fernando Alonso found it hard to give feedback on the new AMR23 at the Bahrain test. Lance Stroll would have come in handy...
Stroll had to miss last week’s Bahrain test due to a wrist injury, leaving Alonso and rookie Felipe Drugovich to undertake the initial sorting and development work on the new car.
While the Spaniard drove last year’s AMR22 in November's Abu Dhabi test and in recent Pirelli 2024 tyre development running, Stroll had a full season of race experience with the car. He would thus have provided valuable continuity in terms of comparisons with the new model. “Unfortunately we don't have Lance, because that would be a benefit for us. We miss him here because some of the changes we're making to the car, we don't know if it's this car, or it's just an Aston Martin thing that for me feels different.Felipe Drugovich, Aston Martin F1 Team, walks back to the garage after his car stopped on track at the Bahrain testExpanding on the areas where the team is lacking Stroll’s feedback he said: “It hurts a lot.
Intriguingly Alonso suggested that the AMR23 has changed so much that set-up information from the 2022 car is now “useless”, as the car requires a different operating window.
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