Some Aston Martin workers would like Fernando Alonso to be replaced by Carlos Sainz.
Alonso enjoyed great luck with the Silverstone-based team in their first joint season last year. He scored eight podiums in the campaign and finished fourth in the drivers’ championship with more than double the points scored by team-mate Lance Stroll.
Still, it turns out not everyone at Aston Martin is committed to a long run with F1’s dean of statesmen. According to Motorsport. com, there are “factions” among those who need to see Alonso’s back.
They would like to see one Spanish winner replaced by another, given Sainz’s availability. The 29-year-old will leave at the end of the year after Ferrari opted to give up his seat to Lewis Hamilton.
Sainz started the season strong with one win and two more podiums. This impressive form has attracted the interest of more sensible teams: Mercedes definitely wants a new driving force to reposition Hamilton, while Red Bull may simply bring a new face into Sergio Perez’s position.
But Aston Martin could also be on this list of interested parties in the Spaniard. In addition to Audi, the Motorsport. com report suggests that the team’s owner, Canadian billionaire businessman Lawrence Stroll, could also be in the running for his signature.
He said: “Sources have revealed that factions within Aston Martin need him to sign up to the Silverstone team for 2025 alongside Lance Stroll and lead it into the new era of F1 regulations from 2026, rather than continuing with Fernando Alonso.
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Sainz was looking to stay at Ferrari but has been thinking about other features for months, adding last year talks with Audi about his F1 loan that officially begins in 2026. Now that it has been shown that there is no place for him at Maranello, the Spaniard has spoken to “almost” all the groups on the grid with a vacancy.
And he hopes to have explanations in the coming weeks about where he will race next year. He said, “I reach out to some [teams] because that’s what my control team and I will do when I don’t have paints for the next one. “year yet. So we reached out to almost all of them.
“It’s just a matter of going into more detail and seeing the realistic maximum characteristics and what the maximum productive characteristics are for me and for my future, and I don’t have any news for you and nothing to say here. Obviously, it’s time to speed things up a little bit and we can fix it as soon as possible. “
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