{"id":35489,"date":"2025-07-02T12:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=35489"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:35:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:35:18","slug":"aston-martin-seeing-encouraging-progress-with-2026-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2025\/07\/02\/aston-martin-seeing-encouraging-progress-with-2026-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Martin seeing “encouraging” progress with 2026 car"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aston Martin<\/a> have invested heavily into acquiring the best personnel and building the best infrastructure – largely with the aim of becoming a top team in 2026. With the new regulations approaching, the Silverstone outfit are optimistic about their progress.<\/p>\n

Andy Cowell provides update on 2026 Aston Martin<\/h2>\n

After a relatively disappointing start to the year, Aston Martin are now gathering some momentum.<\/p>\n

Points finishes in the last three races have managed to quieten some of the more negative narratives about their 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n

Still, there is no denying that Aston Martin’s best case scenario this year – finishing 5th in the standings – is far below the team’s ultimate objectives.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, Adrian Newey<\/a> and his technical team have been working diligently on next year’s cars.<\/p>\n

The Silverstone-based operation will hope to optimise their partnership with Honda – which effectively gives them the flexibility of a manufacturer team – to assert themselves in 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After years of assembling an exceptionally talented team, Aston Martin are inching closer to their first major test.<\/p>\n

Since arriving at the team, Newey’s primary task has not just been developing next year’s car – but also ensuring that everyone at the factory is working in the most efficient and integrated way possible.<\/p>\n

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Mike Krack in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Zak Mauger\/LAT Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In this sense, team principal Andy Cowell’s years at Mercedes<\/a> should facilitate Aston’s progression – after all, he knows exactly how a winning team functions.<\/p>\n

The 56-year-old is positive about the work being done for 2026:<\/p>\n

“Yes. Progress has been made, and the concept architecture of the 2026 car is encouraging.<\/em><\/p>\n

“We’re seeing greater refinement, growth in the organisation and development in our methods of operation. It’s going well<\/em><\/p>\n

“The fact we now have a wind tunnel available to us seven days a week, 24 hours of each of those days if we so choose, is an advantage.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Having our own facility speeds up development and provides more responsive answers to engineers’ queries.<\/em><\/p>\n

“The new wind tunnel is game-changing. <\/em><\/p>\n

“It’s driving greater efficiency and ultimately, in the bigger scheme of things, that helps us find answers to the how and the why.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Andy Cowell, Team Principal and Group CEO at Aston Martin F1 Team Montreal, Quebec. (Photo by Zak Mauger\/LAT Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Final updates for AMR25<\/h4>\n

For all of the understandable emphasis on the 2026 regulations, Aston Martin’s work for this year is not quite finished<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are still some updates in the pipeline, which will make their debut over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

In theory, these modifications will be primarily centred on unlocking more performance for the AMR25.<\/p>\n

However, Aston are still working to optimise their new wind tunnel, simulator and general development facilities.<\/p>\n

Because of this, the correlation of their next upgrades will be significant as they prepare for next year.<\/p>\n

Aston Martin’s journey in recent years, especially in 2025, has been about putting all the pieces of the puzzle together.<\/p>\n

The next six months, therefore, will consist of an intense process of adaptation and integration at the factory.<\/p>\n

Andy Cowell<\/a>, Adrian Newey, Andy Stevenson and the team’s other senior figures are striving to ensure they are ready to hit the ground running next season.<\/p>\n

Other lesser-known engineers, though nonetheless integral, have joined the team in Silverstone over recent months.<\/p>\n

A combination of heavy investment and Adrian Newey’s presence have allowed Aston Martin to grow and strengthen their workforce.<\/p>\n

Provided Honda can produce a high-quality engine (which is generally expected), Alonso and Stroll could soon have a formidable machine.<\/p>\n

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

Aston Martin have invested heavily into acquiring the best personnel and building the best infrastructure – largely with the aim of becoming a top team in 2026. With the new regulations approaching, the Silverstone outfit are optimistic about their progress. Andy Cowell provides update on 2026 Aston Martin After a relatively disappointing start to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4927,"featured_media":35490,"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],"class_list":["post-35489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","category-news","tag-aston-martin","tag-f1-2025-season"],"modified_by":"Jaden Diaz-Ndisang","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35489","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=35489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35495,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35489\/revisions\/35495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}