How Aston Martin’s F1 season has gone off track

In two consecutive races at least one car has started from the pitlane as the team has attempted to learn more about its current problems. And in two consecutive races, Fernando Alonso has retired due to floor damage that was outside his control.

Meanwhile, at almost every venue Lance Stroll has lost priceless track time in practice to gremlins of one sort or another.

His ongoing bad luck was somehow summed up in FP2 in Mexico, when a front…