Fernando Alonso chose to leave Alpine and sign for Aston Martin while hardly anyone in Formula 1 he thought the Silverstone marque could turn around its bad situation and give the two-time world champion a car to win.
However, the Asturian maintained a previous conversation with Lawrence Strollowner of the team, in which the Canadian convinced him with an exciting project: a new factory, his own wind tunnel, galactic signatures…
Among them stands out the name of Dan Fallows, right hand of Adrian Newleythe great “guru” of Formula 1, for many years Red bull.
The engineer, with Eric Blandinformer of mercedeshas produced a single-seater that mixes the best concepts from Red Bull, Ferrari and the brand with the star.
They’ve been working on the car since last May, so they were the first to see the real potential of the green team.
In fact, months after starting the new design and announcing the signing of Fernando AlonsoFallows launched a notice on social media.
Using a photo of a podium with max verstappen And Daniel Ricardo In 2017, the engineer assured that “more are coming, but with a different color.”
Well, in the first race of the season, Alonso took the podium in Bahrain. It was just the demonstration of Aston Martin’s potential and what could happen. Of course, if there is anyone who knows the evolution capacity of the AMR23, it is the “guru”.
Looking back 2017. More of these to come but in a different color scheme. pic.twitter.com/rUt3ZOp3Lh
—Dan Fallows (@DanFallows) August 12, 2022
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