At Aston Martin, optimism and excitement have gradually returned thanks to the latest performances of the two drivers. Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll have managed to step up and achieve a series of more impressive results, proving that the new parts that have arrived are indeed useful and have improved the car’s performance.
Aston Martin will continue to update its AMR25 in Belgium
It is here that, before putting everything into the new 2026 regulations, the green team is implementing updates for the remainder of the season. At Silverstone, both drivers were able to test the new floor and upper bodywork. The Canadian, despite describing the car as a “piece of shit,” managed to put his Aston Martin in third place for more than half the race before Hülkenberg overtook him.
Now, ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix at the legendary Spa circuit, there will be more updates to the AMR25. The car still has plenty of room for improvement between now and the end of the year. This was revealed by team boss Andy Cowell to the newspaper AS.
“We did some experiments on Friday to decide whether to keep the floor and bodywork.
Fortunately, there were no problems because we didn’t have any spare parts, I can say that now. Other significant parts will arrive at Spa,“ revealed the Aston Martin boss during the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
This will be the last planned upgrade, although there could be one more before the end of the year: ”We don’t want to be here in the middle of the table.”
It’s true that the rain prevented us from knowing the real performance of that package. In fact, Fernando flew with the dry tires when the track started to dry out. “In these conditions, you don’t collect much data because each lap is done in different conditions from the previous one. We’ll decide based on the data,” said Cowell.
Both cars finished in the points. Stroll was seventh and Alonso ninth. But it was a missed opportunity considering the chaos and the fact that Nico Hulkenberg’s Sauber finished the podium behind the McLarens.
We’re still pushing, we don’t want to be here in the middle of the table.”
Regarding what they could bring—which he assures will arrive at Spa—it is understood that it is an element that completes the new Silverstone package. This Spa part could be one of the last two improvements of the year for the green team, since when Cowell announced the new features that would be unveiled last weekend, he said that development of the 2025 car was complete and that the team would focus solely on 2026, without revealing that there was a new feature in the final stages of development that would see the light of day in Belgium.
“As the grid stands now, there are 5-6 cars within two tenths… if it’s half a tenth or a tenth, we’ll take it,” said Fernando Alonso last weekend.
The Belgian Grand Prix at Spa will take place in the last week of July.
However, if everything goes well and they get the expected results, or it brings them closer to fighting for more ambitious goals, such as being permanently the fifth car on the grid, it is thought that there could be a final update before the end of the year because, as Alonso said in Austria, “the dream of experiencing a podium finish in Abu Dhabi is still there.”
Thus, this next update—or improvement—is scheduled for the next Grand Prix in Belgium, the next race on the calendar. It will be the 13th race of the championship, scheduled for the last weekend of July, from the 25th to the 27th, at the legendary Spa-Francorchamps circuit.
From Silverstone, there will be 21 days of rest before the excitement resumes on a track that is just over 7,000 kilometers long, the longest in the World Championship, and has 19 corners. It will be the penultimate race before the new break of almost a month for the summer holidays, which will take place after the Hungarian Grand Prix on August 3, until the weekend of August 31.
As Alonso explained, Adrian Newey has not yet got to work on some of the parts that have come out of the mega factory at Aston Martin in Silverstone—he joined the team with the 2025 season already underway and started working directly on the 2026 car—but the new developments from Imola have been released under his close supervision. We’re still pushing, we don’t want to be here in the middle of the table,” the Spaniard concluded at Silverstone.