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Posted on 03/05/2026 6:29:11 AM PST by WhiteHatBobby0701
The team has endured a disastrous lead-up to the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, with a severe vibration plaguing its new AMR26.
That has caused trouble with its Honda battery and severely limited the number of laps able to be completed in pre-season testing.
Team principal Adrian Newey admitted earlier on Thursday that the issue is also having an impact on the drivers.
Newey revealed Alonso feels he “can’t do more than 25 laps consecutively before he will risk permanent nerve damage to his hands”, while Stroll has a 15-lap threshold.
The two drivers have subsequently given their perspectives of driving the car, with Stroll’s the most graphic.
“I guess just like, electrocute yourself in a chair or something like that, and it’s not far off,” he said.
“It’s a very uncomfortable vibration. It’s bad for the engine but it’s also bad for the human inside the car.
“We need to just get on top of it, but I think we will.”
Alonso also painted a grim picture of driving the car to date but is optimistic updates will improve it this weekend.
Newey had cautioned the team will continue to be “very heavily restricted on how many laps we do in the race until we get on top of the source of the vibration”.
“The vibrations coming from the engine are hurting the components in the car and the drivers, we feel them,” said Alonso.
“We feel our body with this frequency of the vibration that you feel after 20 or 25 minutes. A little bit numb, on your hands or your feet or whatever.
“Since Bahrain, there were a couple of tests done and some of the solutions are implemented on the car now.
“So curious to see what tomorrow we can improve and we can feel.”
Alonso stressed it’s “not difficult to control the car” and that “adrenaline is way higher than the pain” when behind the wheel.
“But definitely it is something that is unusual,” he added.
“It shouldn’t be there and we don’t know the consequences either, if you keep driving like that for months, so a solution has to be implemented.
“And as I said, everyone is trying every day in Japan to fix the things, so we are here to help as well.”
Stroll said whether he can withstand more than 15 laps behind the wheel at Albert Park “depends how much we’ve improved since Bahrain”.
“If we still have the same vibration issues we had with the car in Bahrain, it’s going to be hard to do much more than 10-15 laps,” he said.
“If we resolved those issues the last couple of weeks, then I think we can go much further into the race. Time will tell.”
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The new cars are electrocuting drivers says the drivers. This proves how we're forced to read Australian and UK media for Formula One because of Tim Cook.
I cannot believe Formula One is allowing Aston Martin to compete with what is clearly an unsafe car. It demonstrates how money overrules anything in F1.
They have made these cars way too complicated.
They need harmonic dampeners! Quick Geordi, reverse the polarity!
Could be a glitch in the Heisenburg Compensators.
“Whatever it was, it didn’t drive long.”
“The new cars are electrocuting drivers says the drivers”
I think it’s a vibration problem, not electrical shock.
It’s odd and not explained why electric motors create a vibration problem. Guess something’s out of balance.
Or maybe the current supplied to the motor is spikey, causing torsional vibration.
What’s up with one sentence paragraphs? It’s a really weird writing style.
either that....or the muffler bearings need lubricating...
Stroll didn’t say the car was actually electrocuting him. He was making a comparison about how the vibrations feel.
Reminds me of my old ironhead Sporster with no rubber mounts.
A 600 lb vibrator.
I traded it in for an 93FXR 32 years ago.
I had a HD Paint Shaker too.
So, what they are saying is not to bet on them for a podium spot. LOL
At least we won’t have to listen to Danica Patrick.
It sounds like they need to recalibrate the whoozit valves too.
Yep, and it also appears, at least for now - that F2/F3/F1 Academy are nowhere to be found. I think they made a huge mistake; right when F1 is really starting to take off in the states they dump it to Apple.
Bwahahaha!
I never heard that expression but it’s quite apt.
Exactly. Tim Cook got it and now he’s destroying the sport when INDYCAR has the best media deal.
I'm betting it's pulse modulation. Really fast high current digital to analog converters are non trivial.
The internal combustion engine is creating a vibration that is destroying the battery. It is not clear what in the IC engine is causing the vibration.
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