Why Aston is coming out with fighting talk for its F1 2024 chances against Red Bull

The Silverstone team made a seismic leap forward in 2023, and its proclamation that Red Bull is "absolutely beatable" raises expectations still further. Here's why Aston is upbeat that it can continue to make inroads towards the front of the Formula 1 grid

Published Feb 15, 2024, 11:42 AM

Formula 1 is soon going to hit some major anniversary moments. Next year, the championship, along with Autosport, is going to be celebrating 75 years of continuous history. In three months, it will be 30 years since the deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger on that awful weekend at Imola.

But, in just three weeks, it will be one year since Aston Martin shocked its rivals by making what star driver Fernando Alonso calls a “once in a lifetime” car performance gain. Then in 2023, the Silverstone-based squad that had just finished seventh in the 2022 constructors’ championship made a step worth over a second a lap in one off-season.

Author Alex Kalinauckas

Alex Kalinauckas is Autosport's Grand Prix Editor, covering every Formula 1 race since the start of 2020. After completing a master's degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College University of London in 2014, he worked for a range of motorsport and technology publications while covering national racing as an Autosport freelancer.

A lifelong motorsport fan - no one in his family can explain quite how or why such a development first occurred - Alex joined the Autosport staff in April 2017 as the magazine’s Assistant Editor covering Formula 2 and GP3, before being made Formula E correspondent and Autosport.com’s Plus Editor in March 2018. He lives in north-east London and is constantly frustrated by the Central Line.