Aston Martin, F1 constructor

The Silverstone outfit has sold a stake to private equity company Arctos, which has interests in multiple MLB, NBA, NHL and MLS franchises, as well as European football teams, including Liverpool FC.Inevitably, the move has prompted suggestions that Stroll might be planning to wind down his involvement in the team, and that there will be further sales of shares.However, the Arctos deal is seen as ...

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Aston was in front of the Woking outfit for most of the season until McLaren moved into fourth place in the constructors' world championship after the United States GP.Following fifth place for Lance Stroll and eighth place after a first-lap spin for Fernando Alonso in Las Vegas, Aston has narrowed the gap to 11 points, with just the season finale at Yas Island to come.Asked if the team will focus ...

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While exact figures have not been disclosed, Aston Martin has reported on the eve of the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix that Arctos Partners has acquired a “minority shareholding in AMR Holdings GP Limited, the team’s holding company”. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2023.According to the Financial Times, this investment values the team at £1 billion. Earlier this year, Alpine ...

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In recent months, Aston Martin has worked to effectively reverse engineer components developed for next year and then fitted them to the current AMR23, with the floor an area of focus.But amid a decline in results for a team that scored a podium in six of the opening eight races, during the recent United States and Mexican Grands Prix weekends, it split drivers Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll ...

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Alonso took his first podium in seven races in last week's Brazilian Grand Prix after coming out on top of a thrilling battle with Red Bull's Sergio Perez on the last lap.With team-mate Lance Stroll fifth, it was a return to form for Aston Martin after impressing with six podiums across the first races before fading away into midfield obscurity following the summer break.Its downturn in ...

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Two-time champion Alonso crossed the line just 0.053 seconds ahead of the Red Bull driver to secure the final podium spot at Interlagos, as Aston Martin returned to the rostrum for the first time since Zandvoort.The battling duo injected late drama into a largely tepid affair won by Max Verstappen. Ninth-starting Perez dived up the inside of the AMR23 into Turn 1 on lap 70 of 71.But on the final ...

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Following the two frustrating weekends in the USA and Mexico, the Spaniard qualified in fourth at Interlagos, one place behind team-mate Lance Stroll. The team had a frustrating shootout on Saturday, with Alonso tangling with Esteban Ocon and Stroll losing out to the red flag that followed.However, from 15th and 17th on the sprint grid, they showed good pace as they moved up the field to ...

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Those events saw three out of four starts made from the pitlane as the team tried to learn more about the update package it debuted at Circuit of the Americas. And just to make life even tougher, Fernando Alonso was forced to retire from both races with floor damage.And yet, just days after the Mexican disappointment, the team showed both pace and operational savvy at Interlagos as the green cars ...

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The final stage of qualifying for Sunday's race in Sao Paulo began with rainfall expected to emerge partway through the session, as dark clouds rolled over the circuit.This precipitated a rush to get a banker lap in at the start of the session, and Aston Martin took the initiative by queuing up at the pitlane exit first in a bid to beat the incoming inclement weather.Stroll managed to outqualify ...

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The Spaniard and team-mate Lance Stroll have endured a difficult run of races since new developments arrived at the United States Grand Prix.Neither driver has been particularly happy with the balance of the car, and things were not helped by the team getting struck by brake problems in FP1 at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas that ultimately derailed its weekend there.But ahead of a sprint race ...

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The Brazilian drove the AMR23 in the Bahrain test earlier this year and will replace Fernando Alonso in FP1 in Abu Dhabi, having already had a Friday session at Monza in Lance Stroll’s car.He has also been conducting an extensive programme of private testing in an AMR21 this year, bringing his total mileage in the green cars since he joined the team late last year up to 6,000km.Drugovich has ...

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In two consecutive races at least one car has started from the pitlane as the team has attempted to learn more about its current problems. And in two consecutive races, Fernando Alonso has retired due to floor damage that was outside his control.Meanwhile, at almost every venue Lance Stroll has lost priceless track time in practice to gremlins of one sort or another.His ongoing bad luck was ...

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Alonso was third in the world championship as recently as last month's Italian GP, but after a run of frustrating weekends, he now lies fifth, with Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris and George Russell all reeling him in.Aston Martin meanwhile has fallen to fifth place in the constructors' championship but is under no threat from behind after being bettered by McLaren.Alonso had another disappointing ...

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Alonso confessed that he is lacking confidence in the AMR23 after uncharacteristically suffering big spins at the high-speed track on both Friday and Saturday.Ultimately, he couldn’t better 13th in qualifying, while his team-mate Lance Stroll was only 18th.“Very tricky,” said the Spaniard when asked by Motorsport.com about what the incidents said about the car. “Yesterday [Friday] at the ...

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After switching from Alpine, Alonso's 2023 got off to a positive start with six podiums in the opening eight races, as Aston Martin was transformed into Red Bull's regular closest rival with its work on the downwash car concept over the winter.As Mercedes and Ferrari initially ploughed on with their respective 'zeropod' and inwash 'bathtub' approaches to upper aerodynamic car surfaces, they then ...

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The Silverstone-based outfit had begun the 2023 campaign as Red Bull’s main challenger, with Fernando Alonso rolling off a run of podium finishes early in the season.However, as rivals like McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari made big gains through upgrades, Aston Martin started to lose ground and fall down the order.The team bemoaned this slump as being triggered by “side-effects” of the ...

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Browning won the Award, which also includes a prize of £200,000, after impressing in MotorSport Vision Formula 2, United Autosports Ligier LMP3 and Beechdean Motorsport Aston Martin GT3 machinery last year.The F3 driver completed a day of testing at the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit in one of Aston Martin’s AMR21 cars on Tuesday.The 21-year-old completed two separate installation runs on wet ...

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The team struggled to optimise its latest updates after problems arose in FP1 at the US GP, after which the specification was fixed.That led to a disappointing qualifying session on Friday, and an equally frustrating shootout and sprint on Saturday.The team eventually opted to take both AMR23s out of parc ferme and make wholesale changes that triggered pitlane starts for Sunday's main ...

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Aston Martin introduced a hefty upgrade for this weekend’s race at the Circuit of the Americas, but its weekend was derailed after it suffered brake problems in first practice that left it on the backfoot. Alonso was knocked out in Q1 and, with the car not looking competitive, his team has elected to make changes to both his and team-mate Lance Stroll’s cars for the grand prix. It means they ...

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Most drivers clocked 23-26 laps during the first hour of running at the Circuit of The Americas in Austin, but Stroll could only complete five tours and team-mate Fernando Alonso was limited to 18 laps.This will prove particularly costly because Aston Martin is trying to validate an upgraded floor and bodywork, plus the sprint race format means the team now moves straight into GP ...

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As Aston Martin bids to retain fourth place in the constructors' standings against the major in-season gains made by McLaren, the AMR23 has been given an updated floor, bodywork and beam wing.For Austin, the floor edge has been tweaked and a longitudinal slot plus outboard wing added, the wing having previously been mounted under the floor. The diffuser gains a revised side view expansion.The ...

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Aston Martin started off the season strongly with six podiums for Fernando Alonso in the first seven grands prix, but rival teams have since caught up with the Silverstone squad.It has long fallen behind Mercedes and Ferrari and will now face an uphill task to fend off McLaren for fourth as the Woking outfit's recent double podiums have moved it to within 11 points.Over the past three races ...

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Stroll has endured a torrid time since the summer break, having not scored a point in the last five races and been knocked out of Q1 for the last four events.Speaking at the Qatar Grand Prix, Stroll suggested that some changes in the behaviour of the Aston Martin F1 car, especially the way the rear end appeared to be less settled than before, were not good for him.Aston Martin team boss Mike Krack ...

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Amid a tough 2023 campaign, Stroll's frustration boiled over after being knocked out in Q1 during Friday qualifying at Losail.While storming out the back of the garage, he appeared to shove his trainer Henry Howe as he attempted to direct his driver to be weighed in parc ferme.Stroll was investigated by the FIA's Compliance Officer and received a written warning for his behaviour, "reminding Lance ...

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Around the halfway mark of a sweltering Losail race, Alonso urged the team to come up with a solution after feeling a burning pain in his seat."The seat is burning, mate," he said on the team radio. "Anything we can do at the pit stop? Throw me water or something!"The team couldn't do much to provide some relief for the Spaniard, but afterwards team principal Mike Krack explained the ...

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