SINGAPORE — Fernando Alonso has urged Aston Martin to not get distracted by 2026 and the arrival of Adrian Newey, calling on the staff to “shake issues up slightly bit” to enhance its present automobile.

Formulation 1 design legend Newey will be part of Aston Martin in March subsequent yr, primarily to deal with designing a automobile for the game’s subsequent rule change.

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Aston Martin proprietor Lawrence Stroll has invested closely to make sure his staff turn into title contenders below that rule change, with Newey the most important identify on an extended checklist of serious hires on the technical facet which incorporates Enrico Cardile from Ferrari.

However Alonso just isn’t happy with the place the staff is at present and has referred to as on enhancements within the quick time period.

“I feel 2026 is in our heads for everybody at Aston, and the most important hope with Adrián coming, and Enrico, and a number of the names,” Alonso mentioned after qualifying in Singapore.

“So that is going to be nice, and the long run appears brilliant however 2025 we have to shake issues slightly bit. It is not ok what we’re doing proper now and in 2025 we have to change the tempo.”

Alonso certified eighth for Sunday’s race.

Regardless of the sturdy efficiency and Q3 look, Alonso didn’t really feel like the end result mirrored how Aston’s automobile has felt this week.

“Very pleased with the efficiency,” Alonso mentioned. “I feel we’re struggling this weekend lots. A few of the weaknesses of the automobile are concentrated across the Singapore monitor.

“We had been P12 and P18 in FP3, did not look good in any respect, and in our simulations — as standard we rank the groups — and we had been the seventh or eighth staff, near ninth, so issues aren’t wanting nice in the meanwhile.”

Throughout Friday follow, an amusing radio trade happened after Alonso saved his automobile from a spin.

Instantly afterwards, his race engineer requested him if he had supposed to push a button signalling he was going to come back into the pits.

Alonso mentioned he needed to push all of the buttons on his steering wheel “to cease this automobile from crashing.”

When requested if he is utilising all of his driving expertise to get one of the best out of the automobile proper now, he replied: “100%. Proper now I’m making use of all of the efforts to beat slightly bit the shortage of tempo. A number of work has been carried out between Baku and right here.

“Yesterday we left the pc at 2 a.m. and we now have been growing the work to search out solutions greater than ever now.

“So we’re placing every thing into it, however we’re discovering that there are not any miracles to be made right here on monitor and we want assist from the manufacturing facility now when it comes to improvement of the automobile, so wanting ahead to the following races.”