De la Rosa: Nothing unusual, but the chassis needs to be redone.

      At Aston Martin, under the leadership of Adrian Newey, the development of a modified version of the AMR26 chassis is progressing rapidly. However, according to Fernando Alonso, "There are still four or five races ahead, the results of which will bring painful experiences, and we just have to endure this period."

      That is, the radically updated car should not appear before the Hungarian stage of the season, or the team will receive it only after the August break in the championship.

      "The thing is, we need to achieve improvements in all areas," confirmed Pedro de la Rosa, a representative of the Silverstone team, while speaking with the Spanish press. "It was expected that we would show normal results, but that did not happen, and now we need to improve literally in everything. It's not just about the engine – our car struggles with both high-speed corners and slow ones...

      There is nothing particularly unusual about this; it just means we have to redo the chassis."

      Alonso echoed this sentiment when summarizing the Monaco Grand Prix, where he managed to earn a point: "Driving such a car is very difficult; it behaves very unstably under braking. You have to drive on the edge, and we executed our tactical choice very clearly, which allowed us to gain quite a bit of time.

      But ahead of us are very challenging races, and in Barcelona, we won't be able to hide the car's shortcomings, as there the chassis, aerodynamic package, suspension, and engine will be under high loads."

      De la Rosa expanded on the thoughts of his compatriot, colleague, and longtime friend: "The car's behavior during deceleration due to issues with the interaction between the engine and the gearbox does not allow the driver to gain confidence behind the wheel. But we know what we need to work on.

      After all, that's Formula 1. It's all about physics here, and the driver always wants the car to provide better grip on the track and for the engine to develop more power. But we will gradually achieve this; this is exactly what we are working on. And we are very pleased with the approach taken by the Honda engineers, in particular, we were pleased with how they solved the vibration problem."