{"id":34190,"date":"2025-05-24T08:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T12:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=34190"},"modified":"2025-05-24T08:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T12:33:11","slug":"adrian-newey-aston-martin-must-improve-simulator-correlation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2025\/05\/24\/adrian-newey-aston-martin-must-improve-simulator-correlation\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Newey: Aston Martin must improve simulator correlation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aston Martin<\/a> can be pleased with the first indications from their Imola update package, which also seems to be generating more performance in Monaco.<\/p>\n

The Silverstone-based outfit’s progress away from the track – a Honda deal, newly constructed wind tunnel and acquisition of Adrian Newey – has generally been clouded by their poor results in 2025 so far.<\/p>\n

This weekend in Monaco, however, is a chance for Aston Martin to change the narrative of their season.<\/p>\n

Still, regardless of their progress in the coming months, Adrian Newey and his technical team are already focused on 2026.<\/p>\n

Since he began work in March, Adrian Newey<\/a> has identified several areas for improvement.<\/p>\n

Adrian Newey integrates himself at Aston Martin<\/h2>\n

Newey’s contract with Aston Martin dominated headlines last year, with the move representing one of the most significant in F1.<\/p>\n

At the same time, a relatively lengthy gardening leave prevented the 66-year-old from beginning work at the team until early March.<\/p>\n

Because of this, the last few months have been very intense at the factory.<\/p>\n

Not only is Newey developing the team’s concept for the 2026 regulations<\/a>, but he is also directing Aston Martin in their optimisation of their new development facilities.<\/p>\n

These include a new wind tunnel and simulator, which only came online earlier this year.<\/p>\n

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Fernando Alonso in Monte-Carlo. (Photo by Zak Mauger\/LAT Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The team’s Imola package, though conceived in the Mercedes<\/a> wind tunnel, was also tested in the team’s new tunnel – to help ensure accurate calibration.<\/p>\n

After a difficult few years, the British team are finally making some progress, which should start to bear fruit.<\/p>\n

Despite this, Adrian Newey continues to push for Aston Martin to further optimise their equipment.<\/p>\n

Newey’s verdict on the team’s development tools<\/h4>\n

Since Lawrence Stroll’s takeover (and especially after Fernando Alonso’s<\/a> dream start in 2023) there has been significant pressure on Aston Martin.<\/p>\n

Their failure to consolidate themselves at the front has become a major source of frustration.<\/p>\n

With the 2026 regulations representing their best chance at climbing the field, Adrian Newey wants to manage expectations and speak candidly about the task ahead.<\/p>\n

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Fernando Alonso in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. (Photo by Rudy Carezzevoli\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking in Monaco, Newey identified some of the team’s current shortcomings:<\/p>\n

“It’s fair to say that some of our tools are weak,” <\/em>the BBC<\/a> quotes him as saying.<\/p>\n

“Particularly the driver-in-the-loop simulator needs a lot of work because it’s not correlating at all at the moment, which is a fundamental research tool.<\/em><\/p>\n

Newey added that Aston will\u00a0 “sort out a plan to get it where it needs to be. But that’s probably a two-year project in truth.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Inevitably, there is always something that an F1 team can improve and more efficiently harness.<\/p>\n

Specifically in the case of Aston Martin, however, the challenge of capitalising on their new technology is sizable:<\/p>\n

“There’s a lot of individually very, very good people. We just need to try to get them working together, perhaps in a slightly better organised way.<\/em><\/p>\n

“That’s simply a result of the roots of the team at Jordan that became Force India, that became Racing Point.<\/em><\/p>\n

“And was as such always a small but slightly over-performing team, to now in a very short space of time, a very big team – that the truth is has been underperforming this year.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Main photo: Zak Mauger\/LAT Images (via Aston Martin media gallery)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aston Martin can be pleased with the first indications from their Imola update package, which also seems to be generating more performance in Monaco. The Silverstone-based outfit’s progress away from the track – a Honda deal, newly constructed wind tunnel and acquisition of Adrian Newey – has generally been clouded by their poor results in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4927,"featured_media":34174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[1566,2452,2387],"class_list":["post-34190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","category-news","tag-aston-martin","tag-f1-2025-season","tag-newey"],"modified_by":"Jaden Diaz-Ndisang","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34193,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34190\/revisions\/34193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}