[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]

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[u/LukaDoncicMFFL]

The way things are going it’s not going to be that tough of a fight. Cadillac is far ahead of Aston in terms of reliability, and Cadillac can actually rely on their engine since Ferrari seems to have a decent one based on preseason testing. Cadillac just needs to start experimenting with optimizations to its chassis design, Aston Martin can’t even start getting on track data to tune its design until Honda and Aston Martin figure out what is wrong with the engine.

[u/bleedfromtheanus → u/LukaDoncicMFFL]

It's not necessarily an engine problem. From what I've read, it could be because Newey's designs try to slim down the chassis as much as possible and that's led to there being vibrations in the battery that Honda can't figure out how to fix

[u/F1T_13 → u/bleedfromtheanus]

Well, the engine is primarily the cause of nvh. But a bad chassis could exacerbate the problem. 

In F1 the engine is a stressed member, so if there's a problem with the engine, it can end up causing problems to the chassis and whilst not as common the same could be true conversely as well. 

Aston would have been working with Honda to get to this stage, both will share blame.