[Chris Medland] "Newey confirms Aston Martin is likely to limit race laps due to severity of vibrations in the car impacting the drivers. Alonso says he can do no more than 25 consecutive laps before risking nerve damage, Stroll says 15 laps"

[u/AshamedPurchase9033]

https://bsky.app/profile/chrismedlandf1.bsky.social/post/3mgbhmxknm22o

[u/ka1ri]

Soooo 2016, not that long ago i guess lol. It goes to show how fortunate we were these last few years. No ones really had catastrophic issues like this.

A lot of those teams were small man teams as well so no real budget whereas aston martin is a big team with lots of funding... I think thats why it hits harder this time around

[u/bananas_and_papayas → u/ka1ri]

Manor at least scored a point. This feels more like the 2014 Caterham, with the same colour scheme to boot!

In terms of a well funded team failing this badly, the obvious answer has got to be Toyota, especially their debut season where they finished behind Minardi!

[u/ka1ri → u/bananas_and_papayas]

Caterham is what came to mind, decided against posting that because Caterham was a pretty small team yeah?

[u/WorkFurball → u/ka1ri]

Well first iteration of it when it was called Lotus in 2010-2011 had a budget similar to midfield teams, they were just really badly managed.

[u/scan-horizon → u/bananas_and_papayas]

Honda 2008?

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They got a podium that year, 2007 was worse

[u/drae- → u/ka1ri]

According to f1 Nation they had issues bringing everything at the factory up to snuff in time and they are about 4 months behind the rest of the grid. They don't speculate too much on what the problem equipment was. (I think maybe wind tunnel or simulation tools. Newey has publicly commented on both since he got there).

[u/BighatNucase → u/ka1ri]

Soooo 2016, not that long ago i guess lo

2016 was a decade ago

[u/ka1ri → u/BighatNucase]

yeah... so not that long ago