If there’s one circuit on the Formula 1 calendar that you’d hope would limit the damage of your underperforming power unit, it’s Monaco.That’s not to say Aston Martin was expecting to suddenly parachute into the top 10, but it would have hoped for better than its tricky start this weekend – slowest of the 11 teams in practice, both drivers struggling with an issue that could send them into the wall and a day that produced Alonso’s biggest criticism of the 2026 cars yet. As Alonso said on Thursday: “Monaco is not the place to have a random downshift, and you have rear [brake] locking or [engine] pushing or something like that. Then you will crash into the wall, and the driver will look stupid.”But it seems that’s exactly what be …
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Author: Josh Suttill
