F1 News: Aston Martin are only 'patching up wounds', top insider tapes brakes on Newey hype
·Updated 4 hrs ago·41 pts
Aston Martin's F1 comeback is overhyped; insiders say they're just patching issues, not dominating yet.
- Hype around Aston Martin's return is significant in F1 circles.
- Insider suggests the team is only 'patching up wounds' rather than a true breakthrough.
The hype round the Aston Martin comeback story is real in F1 circles right now, but not everybody is drinking the Kool Aid yet.
How bad is it really?
Aston Martin have scored 0 points across the last 3 rounds, down from 1 in the 3 before.
Their car ranks 11th of 11 on qualifying pace, 4.271s off the pace leader in recent qualifying.
Best finish in that run: 13th.
Who’s who
- Adrian Newey is the managing technical partner at Aston Martin.
The coverage
- How far to trust it
- GPFans is a mid-tier outlet - usually reliable, but often following someone else. We rate every outlet we track on how often it reports a story first and how often it holds up.
- Who else has it
- GPFans is the only outlet we track carrying this. Nobody else has picked it up yet, so there is nothing to corroborate it against.
