Tommy

And if they are, you know, they've put a lot of effort into this and we've seen that sometimes that works, sometimes that doesn't.

But I back Alpine to make it work this year with the fact that they've gone all in on 2026.

And I think they'll have a great car.

They've got a great engine.

And I think they'll be very strong.

Okay.

Yeah, all these young kids on their phone and their games controllers.

That's what it is, right?

Exactly.

Yeah, true.

New year, new us.

I think they'll be too far back by that point, potentially.

I know they had a whole season of being absolute stinkers, but 2015, Fernando Alonso finished 17th in the championship.

And he only scored two points more than Marcus Ericsson.

He's an amazingly talented driver, but if you've not got the machinery, you can't.

you can't deliver so i do think aston martin is going to be an absolute horrendous year and i do think that they will get to the point maybe i wouldn't you're kind of more confident maybe by mid-season we won't even be talking about it i think they will of all the teams that will progress through the field aston martin will be the most they kind of have to be otherwise they will literally you know go they will literally not finish races if they don't progress

So I do think that they can literally go from being last to not finishing a race to maybe like the seventh fastest team.

But do you kind of see more maybe that they could be like the fifth fastest by the end?

I love the way we've been like, yeah, Aston Martin will turn it around, surely.

And we've both gone for Stroll 20th and 19th.