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As dominant as Red Bull in '23: Alonso believes Aston Martin can do it
Red Bull Racing was virtually unbeatable in 2023. The Austrian team won all but one Grand Prix, so relentless was its domination, particularly with Max Verstappen behind the wheel. Now Fernando Alonso dares to suggest that in 2026, once again, one team will assert its authority over the rest of the field. Not Red Bull, Ferrari or Mercedes, but Aston Martin instead.
Of course, Alonso says, to dominate Formula 1, everything really has to fall into place. "You have to have all the ingredients in place if you want to have that possibility. There is no guarantee and there is no prediction of what is going to happen in 2026, but you have to make sure that you have the tools, you have the facilities, you have the talent, you have the commitment, you have the partners alongside that they share the vision and they share the goal of winning."
Which on paper Aston Martin does have, according to the Spaniard. "To have Honda for 2026, to have Aramco with us, to have the facilities, to have the talent, the new people, already the existing people in the team that they were very talented and very committed for success..."
'Aston Martin has a chance of dominating in F1'
So Alonso draws a daring conclusion: "It seems that you are adding all the ingredients that they were missing, maybe two, five, seven years ago in the organization. So if you tell me that if we will have a chance to dominate the sport without the facility or the factory that we have, I would say we have very little chance. Now we have more."
"If we don't have the wind tunnel, we will have little chance. Now we have more. So everything is a plus and it's a help. So, yeah, that's the hope, that's the aim and we are all committed to put Aston Martin in the first place in the future," Alonso concluded.
This article was written in collaboration with Ludo van Denderen.
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