Months of struggle, increasing concern, and a couple painful races conducting very public experiments, had threatened to derail Aston Martin’s F1 season. But now Fernando Alonso has burst back onto the podium in fighting fashion, his team can - and DID - breathe a sigh of relief after a sudden turnaround in form and fortune. You don’t have to dig back far into our channel’s archives to find in-depth videos on how badly in decline Aston Martin’s season has been. Alonso’s third place, on merit, in Brazil has injected some much needed end-of-year positivity. With Lance Stroll backing him up in fifth, Aston Martin’s 25-point haul from this weekend was more than it had managed across the last SIX. But it wasn’t just a lovely points haul. It was a real podium, earned by being much more competitive over one lap and in the race than Aston Martin has probably been for months. 00:00: What made Aston Martin's huge F1 turnaround possible 01:54 Unpicking the upgrade 04:15 A huge relief 05:57 Th