Aston Martin was missing to complete the quarry programs of Formula 1. The team of Fernando Alonso launched last week its ‘Pilot Academy’, a project in the image and likeness of the nurse plans of the rest of the teams, which try to capture … talent at any point on the planet if the pilot in question has the potential to announce a future with content. Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, Alpine and, especially Red Bull with their academy in Austria, have promoted drivers who are today Formula 1 stars.
Verstappen, Carlos Sainz, Leclerc, Norris, Hamilton or Antonelli come from these schools that exercise as tutors in a sport that needs a lot of money and more investment to progress. In Aston Martin the first canterano is a Spanish: Mari Boya, full name José María Navalón Boya.
Like the other F1 teams, Aston Martin’s purpose is to discover the most promising pilots from childhood or adolescence, from karting to the lower categories of monoplays. The academies, provided with the support and structure of the shields and factories of Formula 1, offer young pilots the tools, mechanisms and financing necessary to develop in motor racing.
To great boy (Les, Lérida, 21 years old) A plan with personalized physical training, appointment advice with the media, simulator sessions at the Silverstone factory and the option, such as last weekend in Austria, to go to the great awards dressed in green Esperanza Aston Aston Martin to share experiences and adventures with the two starting drivers, Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll. Entering the orbit of a team is equivalent to having more possibilities than other pilots who do not enter an official academy.
Mari Boya somehow remembers Fernando Alonso, former inhabitant of a third party without elevator in Oviedo, humble origin. The 21 -year -old pilot comes from the mountain, from the rural environment, a small town of 1,100 inhabitants in the Arán Valley, almost in France, in the skirts of the legend ports in the Tour, El Portillón, the Superbagneres Stationthe peyresourde a little further.
His family owns a farm with cows, horses and other animals, in which the now pilot began working to help the domestic economy. It also collaborates proudly in the supermarket that runs the family in the town. A home surrounded by mountains and near a winter season, where the involved learned to slide in the snow. «You were very skied a lot. Now I support my cousin, who is a professional skier (Toni Boya), ”he said on Aston Martin’s website.
Mari Boya is the second generation son of the ‘Boom Alonso’. Born in 2004, a year before the first title of the Asturian, he belongs to the fans who have met him in his second cycle after returning to the F1 in 2021. «My family has no experience in motor sports, but we have always been great fans of Alonso. Seeing him inspired me. I always wanted to run; I always looked for any opportunity to put me behind the wheel.
With mastery of English, French and some Italian, Boya has become a hole in motoring. Winner of the FIA Karting Academy Trophy in 2018, signed for the Spanish team Campos Racingthat one day he set up the Expileot Adrián Campos. From there he has achieved a podium in Monaco in Formula 3, two steps below his dream, formula 1.
