Aston progress “hurt” by Stroll’s absence from test

Stroll had to miss last week’s Bahrain test due to a wrist injury, leaving Alonso and rookie Felipe Drugovich to undertake the initial sorting and development work on the new car.

Alonso admits that he doesn’t have enough of a reference to properly analyse the behaviour of the AMR23 and compare it with its predecessor.

While the Spaniard drove last year’s AMR22 in November’s Abu Dhabi test and in recent Pirelli 2024 tyre development running, Stroll had a full…