Dan Fallows: Aston Martin F1 not quite on Red Bull's level yet

According to Aston Martin Formula 1 technical director Dan Fallows, there is still progress to be made before the team can match Red Bull's level of competitiveness.

Despite a strong start to the season, Aston Martin currently holds the second position in the constructors' world championship standings, occasionally falling behind rivals Ferrari and Mercedes in terms of pace.

Fallows acknowledges that it is natural for Aston Martin to view Red Bull as a benchmark, considering their current dominance.

He further concedes that there is room for improvement in all aspects of the AMR23.

"We need to sort of consider where we are relative to the Red Bull," said Fallows.

"But I think there are areas we believe where we're relatively strong.

"Also, we have to optimise our car for every particular circuit, which means that sometimes there may be aspects of whether it's low-speed, high-speed corners, which aren't quite as strong as some other competitors.

"The Red Bull as a concept has been evolved for a bit longer than ours. We obviously very publicly went to a different concept early last year. We are still developing that.

"We think we've made a very big step this year, but we still have a little way to go. And I think honestly, I wouldn't point to sort of one single area of it. I think we just need to improve everything, really.

"I think we have managed to generate a car which is reasonably capable in a lot of different areas. We can tune it to what we believe is the optimum for that particular track.

"There are certainly areas that we are focused from an aerodynamic and mechanical point of view that we think we can make progress. But honestly, I don't look at it as a car that has any significant weaknesses at the moment.

"It's just that we want to kind of build on the speed that we have and keep going with the same philosophy."