Top F1 teams say Aston Martin will “definitely will be fighting at the front”

There has been much speculation about Aston’s potential for the upcoming campaign after Fernando Alonso put the AMR23 in the top three spots on both the opening two days of pre-season testing in Bahrain last week and then produced an eye-catching race simulation run on that event’s final evening.

That meant Aston did not get involved with the performance runs produced by most other teams at testing’s end, but it nevertheless did not stop interest building in what…