This seems like a significantly expensive waste of everyone’s time.
Motorsport in general? Or Aston signing this particular guy?
Having a driver development programme when one driver is welded to his seat and the other one drank at the fountain of youth.
- yes but 2. an investment into the future is surely not too early for alonso towards the end of his career
Right but as long as Sonny Stroll is one driver, they’re going to want a “Platinum” driver in the other car to make use of whatever Newey concocts. Unless they still think Stroll is champion material.
Driver Academies are useful for other purposes as well. Binding juniors to yourself to at least have the leverage/managing relationship, controlling which competitor team in F1 or which other motorsports series they end up at. Aston benefits from having drivers for their WEC program for example.
Unfortunately it’s how every big team operates now.
