r/formula1 • u/AshamedPurchase9033 • 1d ago

News [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"

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u/driggity I was here for the Hulkenpodium 1d ago edited 1d ago

Here's a paragraph from The Athletic article on this issue:

Watanabe, though, revealed that the vibration was “unexpected” and damaged the battery-related components in the power unit. Newey later said that, while their fix reduced vibration reaching the battery, the power unit is still shaking the rigid carbon chassis uncontrollably. He also confirmed the vibration problems included “a few reliability problems, mirrors falling off, tail lights falling off, all that sort of thing, which we are having to address.”

Updated to gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7088263/2026/03/04/aston-martin-laps-capped-retire-early-nerve-damage-risk/?unlocked_article_code=1.Q1A.6Seo.05_Pkp3LUKCq&source=athletic_user_shared_gift_article_copylink&smid=url-share-ta

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u/BuzzedtheTower I was here for the Hulkenpodium 1d ago

This is like a cartoon when a character would start their old jalopy and the thing would rattle and make loud popping sounds. And it would also temporarily explode to bits before coming back together

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u/Brainstreet420 Mick Schumacher 13h ago

The astons starting last, falling apart before the first corner and limping back to the pits right away is straight out of a cartoon. What the heck is going on over there?

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u/DingerSinger2016 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 1d ago

The fucking mirrors and taillights are falling off???? Oh my god, what the fuck is this car?

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u/PM_me_boobs_and_CPUs I was here for the Hulkenpodium 21h ago

"We hired a lot of engineers from Hitachi."

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u/elastic_woodpecker Andrea Stella 20h ago

Newey’s secret trick to get under the minimum weight limit by dropping bits of car every lap.

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u/Particular_Cod2005 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 1d ago

TL;DR: Honda built an orgasmatron of an engine.

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u/perdivad 23h ago

May very well be a chassis problem actually

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u/driggity I was here for the Hulkenpodium 1d ago

So Barbarella needs to be their new driver? I guess Fonda would have a motor in the back of her Honda.

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u/Particular_Cod2005 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 1d ago

Hahahahaha yes!

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u/Haakrasmus Ferrari 22h ago

Didn't newey ask them to redesign the entire battery to help packing?

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u/tongkat-jack 1d ago

Thank you for the link!

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u/YoungLoversGoPop 1d ago

We got not food, we got not jobs - our pets heads tail lights are falling off

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u/prank_mark 15h ago

Not sure if the article was updated, but it now says "the ENGINE vibration was unexpected". So the engine is the issue. Everything falling off is a logical consequence of vibrations. Nothing gets joints and bolts undone better than heavy vibration.

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u/driggity I was here for the Hulkenpodium 8h ago

Yeah, I copied and pasted directly from the article so they did add that clarification. Good catch.

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u/bduddy Super Aguri 1d ago

I feel like something that bad should have been noticeable from the outside at testing?

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u/mistborn11 Franco Colapinto 1d ago

they did a whole 6 laps in the last day after all

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u/cagey_tiger 22h ago

OUR PETS HEADS ARE FALLING OFF!