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Alonso admits Newey's Aston ‘definitely behind'
Feb.10 Fernando Alonso has openly conceded that Aston Martin is beginning Formula 1's new 2026 era on the back foot, after the team's Adrian Newey-designed car arrived late and barely ran during the Barcelona shakedown. Speaking to Spanish newspaper AS following Aston Martin's livery launch, the two-time world champion made no attempt to downplay the situation. 'We're definitely behind, we're at square one. I don't think we've even started,' said Fernando Alonso. 'In Barcelona we were able to run some track time, but I treated it more like a filming day – a shakedown that other teams did privately at Silverstone with 200 kilometres that we couldn't do.' Alonso explained that...
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