Aston Martin cannot help, but surprise – Adrian Ney would have done for his 2025 F1 car?

Aston Martin F1’s CEO and team principal Andy Cowell admitted that he was sometimes surprised how his team had performed in 2025 in 2025, so he did not focus on the focus of the Adrian Navy in 2026.

After leaving the Red Bull, New II joined Aston in his role of technical partner’s management in early March, developing the technical side of a heavy expanded team in Silverstone.

In its ability, New IE focuses on providing the best possible car for all new 2026 rules on Aston Martin, which will be a dramatic departure from the cycle of current rules and with it will be a chance to make a big jump to a big leap for a hietor-ambitious laurerence-owned squad.

Aston Martin has also hired East Ferrari Technical Director Anricho Cardile, who has recently started in his role after a long horticulture holiday period, and it will first become a task squad to join forces with Honda.

But amidst all those elevated plans and ambitions, the current reality of Eston Martin is still one of the short -term pain, until a series of upgrades brought it back to the scoring dispute, then moved backwards of the grid.

Specially speaking for autosport, Aston’s head Andy Cowell admitted that he could not stop himself from thinking what the team can achieve by removing the news on the current car this year.

“I guess in the context of the championship points that we have managed to deposit, it is disappointing. It’s disappointing,” Cowell said. “This is one of the years where I was standing behind the grid at the beginning of the race and I was thinking: ‘If the 2026 rules were not here, where will we be now? What do we perform in this car, if since March, Adrian 2025 was focused on car development?”

“There are a dozen other people who have joined the leadership roles and equipment, which have grown better. If all this was focused on ’25 car development, will we be compared now?

This is a tentalizing idea practice, but it is not far from the fact that in 2026, focusing the design Guru Ii on creating a concrete difference has been the correct strategic decision with all. “This is not an option, as it is not only about investing in 2026. It is investing in performance for the beginning of 2026 that you then make in many years, so it’s perfect to invest 2026 and beyond,” he says.

“It is painful when you stand behind a grid and there is only a medical car behind you, it’s not very fun …”

Cowell is referring to an outstand Fernando Alonso And Lance walk 19th and 20th qualified. But in addition to Belgium, Aston’s performance thanked a redesigned floor in May and another repetition in the July silverstone round, with both floors now in the pool of parts based on the circuit. A better front wing at the spa paid dividends a week later in Hungary when the team’s luck changed and the two drivers qualified in the third row before finishing fifth and seventh.

In that form that upper has at least prove that Aston Martin’s new wind tunnel is working as expected, and that the team is capable of putting a tangible performance on the car.

“What we were willing to do with Emola update, ensuring that the new wind tunnel could be used to map at the end of that development journey, but a good part of the aerodynamicist focused from the beginning of January to 2026,” Cowell explained. “So, it was part of our aero team that worked using Mercedes The tunnel, and then using our own tunnel over the last few weeks.

“We were firm to ensure that the update was strong, that at every stage of the journey, every approach was that this race would speed up the car. And pleased to see that in Imola on Friday, he was unanimously in favor of update.”

Aston was ready to close the tap for 2025 and then, but, but some concern on if its Emola package would really be enough to move around its fate, then wooed the team to roll a few more parts. A very tight midfield battle, which is a proper concern, and Aston has since moved to the sixth position in the constructive table. Williams Now just 18 points ahead in front of midfield.

“Our original intention was that we would do everything and this is imagination for the entire season,” Cowell revealed. “On the way to Emola, you are nervous that it is not enough to step you, so we did a little more development work with a small group of people who made some improvements in the floor that we ran into silverstone, and the front wing that we ran into the spa.

“What we are trying to do is structured, completely engineering, where you have an idea and you work what every step is. We are not going to cut the corners, and we are going to tell how to do this in the competitive lead time, but without leaving the quality.

“And I am sure that in future will pay for every season.”