Fernan𝔉do Alonso admits Aston Mꦯartin are “struggling” and urged them not to focus on 2025 yet.

The future of Lawrence Stroll’s F1 𒈔team is bright and exciting, particularly a𓃲fter the unveiling of Adrian Newey as shareholder and managing technical partner.

༒As𒁏ton Martin’s new Silverstone facility, their own wind tunnel and a link-up with Honda suggest there is plenty to be positive about.

But, they are enduring a difficult year.

Alonso finished the F1 Singapore Grand Prix in eighth, after fin𒁏ishing s﷽ixth in Azerbaijan.

But clearly McL🐎aren, Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes have faster cars.

“✅Eighth is better than we expected coming here to Singapore,” Alonso said.

“Obviously the qualifying was very encouraging and starting P7, we were dreaming that P8/P9 was possible and at the e🍷nd we achieved it.

“Good strategy from the team – we were behind Nico Hulkenberg, we undercut on Lap 23 💞and we managed to overtake him, so ꦫoverall I think eighth was the maximum.

“Now we have a little break before Austꦦin and we have to find some performance in the car.

🅰“We’ve been l🐈osing a little bit of ground compared to the top teams and we are in the middle of the midfield. We want to change this situation.”

Alonso demanded “it’s a must” that Aston Martin further their developmen🔜t at the final six rounds of this season, rather than fully focusing on next year.

He added: “The last two circuits which were street circuits, we did good qualifyings and then in the race it’s difficult to overtake so we consolidate those positions in the rac🐎e.

“But this cannot hide the lack of performance we ar🤪e seeing now in the last few events.

“We are awa💯re of 🦂that, the team is working flat-out.

“When the car is performing we are here to score points. When ꩲwe are 🏅struggling like now, we still score points because the team is delivering the job but aware of the situation at the same time.”