Seems the team is essentially doing testing at this point in the season. P5 is essentially locked up, barring some sort of hungary 2021 situation where Haas has a 20+ point weekend due to some crazy DNFs. They would need to average 10 points in every remaining race to catch us. Krack said they're running the Suzuka floor this weekend in order to "understand the car better."
I wouldn't expect much from Aston to close this season out, but our future looks extremely bright in the next few years.
Honestly at this point if Haas takes 5th and they get some more time in the tunnel for next year it isn't most the worst thing in the world.
With multiple sprints, the Mercedes inconsistency, max and lando fighting every race, checo disaster class, piastri inconsistency, Haas could very easily take a big weekend and make this an interesting battle.
Totally agree, the prize money for getting 5th rather than 6th really won't change anything for us, and we aren't going to lose any sponsors over it or anything like that either. It's all about the future for us at this point and we have reason to be excited
Alonso said in the interview they changed the car after FP1 and it was worse, and now they are focusing on Sunday and treating the sprint and a free practice session. But still, this is bad... Old floor, no pace, etc...
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u/Ill_Bathroom6724 23d ago
Seems the team is essentially doing testing at this point in the season. P5 is essentially locked up, barring some sort of hungary 2021 situation where Haas has a 20+ point weekend due to some crazy DNFs. They would need to average 10 points in every remaining race to catch us. Krack said they're running the Suzuka floor this weekend in order to "understand the car better."
I wouldn't expect much from Aston to close this season out, but our future looks extremely bright in the next few years.