Fernando Alonso admits Aston Martin ar🌃e “struggling” and urged them not to focus on 2025 yet.

The future of Lawrence Stroll’s F1 team is bright and exciting, particular🔴ly after the unveiling of Adrian Newey as shareholder and managing tec𝐆hnical partner.

Aston Martin’s new Sil𒊎verstone facility, their own w༺ind 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 Singapo☂re Grand Prix in eighth, after finishing sixth in Azerbaijan.

But clearly McLaren, Red Bu🅺ll, Ferrari and Mercedes have faster cars.

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

“Obviously the qualifyi♌ng was🌺 very encouraging and starting P7, we were dreaming that P8/P9 was possible and at the end 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 overa﷽ll I think eighth was the maximum.

“Now 🌺we have a little break bef🌳ore Austin and we have to find some performance in the car.

“We’ve been losing a little ꦓbit 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 development at t🍒he final six round🦩s of this season, rather than fully focusing on next year.

He added: “The last two circui🧸ts 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 race.

“But this cannot hide the♊ lack of p𝓀erformance we are seeing now in the last few events.

“We are aware🐽 ꧙of that, the team is working flat-out.

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