Ahead of the F1 Mexico City GP, Fernando Alonso did not mince his words about Aston Martin’s performance in the 2025 season.
Joining the team for the 2023 campaign, the two-time F1 World Champion had a wonderful start to life at the Silverstone-based squad, scoring six podiums in the first eight rounds. Further podiums came at Zandvoort and Interlagos later that year. He finished P4 in the Drivers’ Championship.
Unfortunately for him, the second half of 2023 was a sign of things to come. Aston Martin got outdeveloped as the year went on. In 2024 and 2025, they have regressed even further. Both the AMR24 and AMR25 have been a disappointment.
Fernando Alonso says there is nothing to celebrate for Aston Martin in 2025 ahead of the F1 Mexico City GP
Although Alonso finished P9 in the Drivers’ Championship and Aston Martin P5 in the Constructors’ Championship in 2024, they scored 186 less versus 2023 on the teams’ side of things.
With five rounds to go this year, Aston Martin are on 69, 25 down on 2024. They also sit a lowly P7 in the standings at present. Alonso himself is P12 in the Drivers’ Championship.
Speaking in his F1 Mexico City GP print media session, Fernando Alonso did not hide the disappointment of this year.
“I mean, we are very critical with ourselves. We have been underperforming for basically the whole 2025.
“I think if we set a bar in February or March in the first race of the year and we think that it’s going to be the season we had and so low points as a team, we will think that that was a bad season.
“We don’t hide from that fact that we are not quick enough, but at the same time we try every weekend to do our best with the things we have available here on trackside and we try to deliver.
“Austin was 10th, okay we take that point. Sometimes it’s a couple of points.
“But I don’t think it’s nothing to celebrate. It has been a difficult season and it’s going to be always like that.”
Aston Martin expecting a very tough F1 Mexico City GP says Fernando Alonso
Since 2021 with a P7 from Sebastian Vettel, Aston Martin have not scored a single point in Mexico. Fernando Alonso has not made Q3 over the last two seasons at the team.
While there is three sessions to try and set the car up to optimise it for qualifying and the race this weekend, Alonso believes a Sprint weekend is a bigger advantage for him and the team due to their current form.
As he showed in Sprint Qualifying at COTA with P6, there is a bigger chance to make a difference.
“No, I think Sprint weekends actually are better for us because I think all the cars for the 10 teams are more or less at the limit now.
“There is not much more to experiment with the set-up after 4 years of these regulations and the whole season with not too many upgrades. So the car is very well known how to extract the maximum.
“The Sprint weekend gives you maybe the chance of adapting quicker than other teams. All the drivers to the circuit that we know from many experiences and we can use the experience for the performance on Friday.
“On a normal weekend I don’t think it’s going to be adding anything of learning about the car or the set-up. I think the car is nearly optimised always now from the first lap to the last.
“In terms of performance here, I don’t know. Obviously we have some concerns. The last two years we’ve been uncompetitive in Mexico and also uncompetitive like in Vegas.
“And from the remaining races, these two Grand Prix are the ones that we are more afraid of.”
