What the Navy has learned in the first F1 outing with Aston Martin in Monaco

Adrian Navy participated in his first race in Aston Martin’s All-Green uniform in Monaco, a technical partner’s management job, which is an overlapping position, which will allow Ii to join all the technical aspects of the team as it aims to win Formula 1 world in the next few years.

In Silverstone, Neey F1 will face many other heavy hits from the technical aristocracy, such as former Mercedes The head of the power unit, Andy Cowell, who leads the entire team, and former Ferrari Designer Enrico Cardilla, who is ready to join the summer as the Chief Technical Officer.

Aston’s technical leadership will be at the top of a state-of-the-art factory across the road from the Silverstone Circuit, including a brand-new wind tunnel, which has been first deployed to help give these–sector car upgrade.

When the first time the Monaco was quizzed by the F1 Media in the Grand Prix Padock, the Aqui has given his views about the team’s ambitious owner Lawrence walking, and what it can achieve under the new rules.

The first impression of the Navy, and the main weaknesses they have seen

Taking the happiness forward, the Navy was an open book on some weaknesses that Aston still has to remove. As the new Silverstone went to a recruitment race to populate the new silverstone base for a walk, not a long time after its much thin racing point days, he said that Aston is still going through rising pain as the team learns to operate efficiently.

He said, “My first job, to designing and talk to everyone, an attempt to try and understand how the team works, works with its strength and weaknesses, and strength and plans to promote and increase the weaknesses,” he explained.

“There are many, very good people. We just need to try to work together in a slightly better organized way. This is the result of the team’s roots in Jordan, which became Force India, which became a racing point.

“It was always a small but slightly higher performing team, so far, in a very short time, a very large team that is really decreasing this year. I think there is much now that everyone is getting to settle and learn how to get the most out of individuals.”

On the hardware front, Neyey is believed to be the best factory and wind tunnel in F1, but he has also identified a significant weakness that should be addressed; The physical simulator that uses both its race and reserve drivers helps develop new parts and set-up trial on race weekends.

“I think it is appropriate to say that some of our equipment are weak, especially the driver-in-loop simulator,” he revealed.

“It needs a lot of work because it is not at all correlated at all, which is a fundamental research tool. It is not a limit, but we have clearly found to work around it in the meantime. It is probably a two -year project, really. We’re going to be a little blind for some time. We are just trying to use experience and best decision.”

How to provide scope for 2026 rule opportunity

At first glance the new 2026 Rules – which focuses on the New “99%” – is more prescriptive, but after a deep dive, New has detected a lot of scope for innovation, which may be an inauspicious sign for the Aston Martin competition. It is reflecting their views by 2022’s grassroots based rules.

“This is exactly the same,” he said. “My first response was when I first saw the 2026 rules: ‘God, it doesn’t leave much.” But then you start drilling in detail and definitely have a reasonable amount of flexibility.

A late start means that New IE is against it completely flex your muscle for 2026

Already with a model in the wind tunnel from the turn of the year, the ban on aerodynamic development was lifted, the Navy also admitted that his early March was later, as much as he would have liked.

He said, “Rules emerged in their final form on 1 January. I was sure that there was enough information about the rules that a decent body of work could be done, and there was no doubt by many teams before that,” he explained.

“So, after a very at least four months later, you are always chasing and playing catch-ups, but this is what it is.”

Nevertheless, he said that a large amount of work has been done as Eston is targeting the deadline for ambitious development, with the focus of Newi, which he called “Fundamental”, as the 2026 car layout is being defined.

“When I started, very little ’26 was done on research, but we have been of a big amount since then. It’s a big challenge, and I think the deadline is coming very early,” he said.

“The lead time has become too long, as the cars are more complex and they take more time in design and construction, and the research equipment is much more sophisticated.

“My main focus at this time is working with everyone that I say to the basic principles of the car, which are the bits of the car that you cannot change during a season, so the front and rear suspension layout, the length of the fuel tank, everything like that.

“Really, we don’t have enough time, and our simulation tools are probably a little weak, so we have got the best decisions on it. If we can get those rights, bodywork and wings, etc., if it comes, you can try to develop it through the year.”

How to help the team already in 2025

But in addition to walking with his notebook in Monaco and sitting in engineering briefing, Ni is contributing to this year’s development project, even if he is not working directly on the car.

The CEO and the team’s boss Cowell explained: “As he is working on a ’26 car ‘, they get to see the equipment that we have received, especially CFD, wind tunnel, drawing board to wind tunnel results.

“Later this week he will see the way he is working in a race weekend environment. The way we have found the car, the way we play a different strategy, and therefore his experience and insight, to see what is going well, what is not good, just helps in our list of jobs, just helps in the list of our jobs.

“Adrian saw a large part of the world of the factory, he will see the first race of the circuit of the circuit and it will only help add all this together. He is probably one of the few engineers of the game who can see the entire aspect of the car. Their experience, insight and creativity will help everyone in the team.”

But what is clear is that the man who was important for the success of the championship Williams, McLaren And the red bull again unlike the end of his red bull tenure, where he came inside and out of day-to-day photo.

“A lot,” he nodded. “I had weekend two weeks ago, but moreover, it has been very full since it started in March.

“My wife says that I go to a design transaction. When I come in this phase of intense concentration and I do not see left and right, all my processing power is going into an area, trying to design a sharp racing car …”