After a powerful begin to the season, Aston at present lies second within the constructors’ world championship desk regardless of being outpaced now and again by rivals Ferrari and Mercedes.
Fallows says that it’s pure that the Silverstone outfit eyes the currently-dominant Purple Bull as a reference, and he admits that the AMR23 may be improved in all points.
“We have to type of think about the place we’re relative to the Purple Bull,” mentioned 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 explicit circuit, which implies that generally there could also be points of whether or not it is low-speed, high-speed corners, which are not fairly as robust as another rivals.
“The Purple Bull as an idea has been advanced for a bit longer than ours. We clearly very publicly went to a distinct idea early final yr. We’re nonetheless growing that.
“We expect we have made a really large step this yr, however we nonetheless have slightly strategy to go. And I feel actually, I would not level to type 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 explicit vices.
“It isn’t essentially that I feel our automobile has explicit strengths in some areas,” he mentioned. “I feel we have now managed to generate a automobile which is fairly succesful in numerous totally different areas. We will tune it to what we consider is the optimum for that specific monitor.
“There are definitely areas that we’re centered from an aerodynamic and mechanical viewpoint that we predict we are able to make progress. However actually, I do not take a look at it as a automobile that has any vital weaknesses for the time being.
“It is simply that we wish to form of construct on the pace that we have now and maintain going with the identical philosophy.”
Sergio Perez, Purple Bull Racing RB19, Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin AMR23
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Fallows say the group shouldn’t focus an excessive amount of on straightline pace and DRS efficiency, which has been the good energy of Purple Bull to this point in 2023. Different groups have additionally erred in direction of ultra-low drag packages.
“We glance to type of optimise our lap time on each monitor we go to,” he mentioned. “We do should be slightly bit aware about what all people else is doing as properly, as you do not wish to be miles away from bed in your high pace.
“However actually, we attempt to give attention to what we predict is the quickest final lap time and why we predict it is the quickest race as properly. In order that’s actually been our focus, moderately than what different individuals are doing round us.”
Requested if Aston can win on benefit this season, Fallows famous: “I would like to say {that a} win is feasible this season.
“There are clearly some circuits the place it is not the conventional run of play essentially, generally vehicles have explicit traits that may play out. For instance in Monaco, tracks like that.
“However actually, I feel we’re real looking about our scenario, the place we’re for the time being, our focus is absolutely on simply maximising the quantity of efficiency we get on the automobile within the shortest doable time. And we’ll see what sort of rewards that brings.”
Fallows conceded that the group doesn’t wish to sacrifice 2023 by switching focus to subsequent season too early.
“We undoubtedly wish to begin subsequent yr’s automobile as early as we probably can. The sport actually for us is to be sure that we do not sacrifice this yr’s automobile. Inevitably, will probably be a type of evolution of this yr’s automobile.
“So all the pieces we are able to do to get knowledge, to get updates on this yr’s automobile, will definitely inform that. However sure, we can be trying to begin as early as doable.”
He additionally acknowledged that secure guidelines for 2024 imply that any positive factors made with the AM23 may be carried over to subsequent season: “Precisely, which is why we are able to deal with it as a type of evolutionary step.
“Once more, we do not wish 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.”
