Fernando Alonso is confident Aston Martin are starting the 2025 Formula One season in a better place than they ended the previous campaign.

The Spaniard finished ninth in the drivers' standings last year, with Aston Martin fifth in the constructors' table.

For the second year running the team stumbled after making developments to the car that failed to yield the desired improvements.

However, speaking to BBC Sport at the launch of Aston Martin's 2025 car, two-time world champion Alonso has no doubt the team are ready to close in on the teams ahead of them.

Feel it roar.

Tomorrow, #AMR25 comes to life. pic.twitter.com/HxZ0wPQzD7

— Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team (@AstonMartinF1) February 23, 2025

"We think we will catch up pretty soon," Alonso said.

"We did learn a lot last year, the second part of the season [there were] a lot of experiments going on in the way of learning more things in the 2025 car.

"The simulator has been updated so we have been working a lot in the sim to develop the car a little bit more precisely than the last few seasons.

"We have new tools, new organisation, new people in place to tackle some of the weaknesses we identified last year, so we start in a much better place."

The new F1 season gets underway with the season opener in Australia next month.