After a powerful begin to the season, Aston at the moment lies second within the constructors’ world championship desk regardless of being outpaced occasionally by rivals Ferrari and Mercedes.
Fallows says that it’s pure that the Silverstone outfit eyes the currently-dominant Pink Bull as a reference, and he admits that the AMR23 could be improved in all elements.
“We have to kind of contemplate the place we’re relative to the Pink Bull,” stated Fallows. “However I feel there are areas we consider the place we’re comparatively robust.
“Additionally, we have now to optimise our automobile for each specific circuit, which signifies that typically there could also be elements of whether or not it is low-speed, high-speed corners, which are not fairly as robust as another rivals.
“The Pink Bull as an idea has been advanced for a bit longer than ours. We clearly very publicly went to a special idea early final yr. We’re nonetheless growing that.
“We expect we have made a really massive step this yr, however we nonetheless have a bit method to go. And I feel actually, I would not level to kind of one single space of it. I feel we simply want to enhance all the pieces, actually.”
Fallows indicated the Aston Martin is an efficient all-round automobile, with no specific vices.
“It is not essentially that I feel our automobile has specific strengths in some areas,” he stated. “I feel we have now managed to generate a automobile which is fairly succesful in plenty of totally different areas. We are able to tune it to what we consider is the optimum for that specific observe.
“There are definitely areas that we’re targeted from an aerodynamic and mechanical standpoint that we expect we will make progress. However actually, I do not take a look at it as a automobile that has any vital weaknesses in the mean time.
“It is simply that we need to sort of construct on the pace that we have now and maintain going with the identical philosophy.”
Sergio Perez, Pink Bull Racing RB19, Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin AMR23
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Fallows say the staff shouldn’t focus an excessive amount of on straightline pace and DRS efficiency, which has been the nice energy of Pink Bull up to now in 2023. Different groups have additionally erred in direction of ultra-low drag packages.
“We glance to kind of optimise our lap time on each observe we go to,” he stated. “We do should be a bit bit acutely aware about what all people else is doing as nicely, as you do not need to be miles away from bed in your high pace.
“However actually, we attempt to deal with what we expect is the quickest final lap time and why we expect it is the quickest race as nicely. In order that’s actually been our focus, fairly than what different persons are doing round us.”
Requested if Aston can win on advantage this season, Fallows famous: “I might like to say that a win is feasible this season.
“There are clearly some circuits the place it isn’t the traditional run of play essentially, typically vehicles have specific traits that may play out. For instance in Monaco, tracks like that.
“However actually, I feel we’re life like about our state of affairs, the place we’re in the mean time, our focus is basically on simply maximising the quantity of efficiency we get on the automobile within the shortest potential time. And we’ll see what sort of rewards that brings.”
Fallows conceded that the staff doesn’t need to sacrifice 2023 by switching focus to subsequent season too early.
“We undoubtedly need to begin subsequent yr’s automobile as early as we probably can. The sport actually for us is to guarantee that we do not sacrifice this yr’s automobile. Inevitably, it will likely be a type of evolution of this yr’s automobile.
“So all the pieces we will do to get knowledge, to get updates on this yr’s automobile, will definitely inform that. However sure, we shall be seeking to begin as early as potential.”
He additionally acknowledged that steady guidelines for 2024 imply that any beneficial properties made with the AM23 could be carried over to subsequent season: “Precisely, which is why we will deal with it as a kind of evolutionary step.
“Once more, we do not need to be any much less aggressive with the way in which we go about growing this automobile than we have been going into this yr.”
