Although Aston Martin was the surprise package in the early part of the season, with Alonso emerging as a genuine threat to Red Bull for race wins, results tailed off notably after Austria.
It is believed Aston Martin was hurt from having an overly flexible front-wing removed, while reverse-engineering parts developed for 2024 to run on the AMR23 also threw the team off course.
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As the team prepares its car for next year, Alonso says designers must address the drag level to boost top speed and make the car sit in a wider operating window to take another step forward.
He explained: “I think we need to find some consistency. Maybe one of the weak points was the car has to operate in a very narrow window.
“It’s the same for everybody [with the ground-effect cars proving particularly sensitive], but it seems that we’re struggling a little bit, and it will be nice if we can always perform at a stable level next year.
“Also, if we can improve the straightline speed - I think that was, in performance numbers, our weak point. Always a little bit too slow on the straights.
“If we wanted to be as fast as the others, we have to drop too much the rear wing. Then we ended up slow in the corners as well. So, that was probably the loop that we could not go out [of] this season.”
Source: Autosport