Lance Stroll snapped a 42-race qualifying losing streak to Fernando Alonso in Spain, edging his teammate by five hundredths of a second. He brushed off media questions about it afterward, but the stat itself tells the story — nearly two full seasons without outqualifying a 45-year-old teammate is a damning indictment, even if Aston Martin's 2026 car has been irredeemably bad across the board.
The team finally rolled out a massive upgrade package in Hungary, and Alonso predictably extracted more from it in qualifying. Stroll finished ahead in the race, but Alonso torched the strategy call on team radio, calling his extended opening stint on softs "terrible." That's been the theme all year — Alonso wringing points from machinery that has no business scoring, like his gritty P10 in Monaco, while Stroll chases his shadow.
Better days may be ahead with the upgrade, but the gap between the teammates isn't closing.
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