And Felipe Drugovich appears to be on the sidelines for another year after re-signing to be reserve and test pilot For the 2025 season (announced on January 13 by the British team), there seems to be a lot of movement in high-value positions in the English racing team.
In reality, since the purchase of the team Force India in 2018 and redemption of shares of Aston Martin, the plan of Lawrence Stroll is clear: mark the history of sport. To do this, it establishes a complete restructuring action plan over several years.
On the program: the construction of a new campus (which opened its doors in July 2023) and two other buildings, the construction of a wind tunnel as well as massive recruitment.
Still in this sense, on January 10, Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team shared a press release announcing a restructuring of its senior management team, following the ambitious plan of the stable extended over several years. Of the changes added to new alliances which take the structure into a whole other dimension…
Aston Martin F1: musical chairs & new arrivals
Through this restructuring at the start of the year, Mike Krack takes a new position within the team, this time on the track side to become director. He therefore leaves his post of Team Principal occupied since 2022, giving the reins to Andy Cowell with immediate effect, taking this position of high responsibility in addition to his role as CEO which he already occupies since 2020.
Among the newcomers, Enrico Cardilestraight from home Ferraribecomes the new technical director for the team based at the AMR Technology Campus, a team which “can now concentrate and devote 100% of his time to the competitive ingenuity challenge of creating a racing car.” The Italian will therefore supervise the architecture, design and creation of new racing cars.
The engineering, performance and aerodynamics departments have evolved to become distinct teams, with the aim of deliver maximum performance racing cars.
In this same press releaseAndy Cowell wants to be extremely enthusiastic about the future, thanks to the support of their strategic partners in addition to their new AMR Technological Campus. And it can be.
With the arrival of one of best engineers in the history of Formula 1 from 2025 and a historic partnership with Honda from 2026, everything suggests that Lawrence Stroll's team is to watch very closely…
Adrian Newey: the engineer with golden hands
One of the best-known and best-paid figures in the paddock is a shadowy figure. Adrian NeweyBritish engineer arrived in F1 in 1980 chez Fittipaldi Automotive and passed through numerous stables including Williams-Renault et McLaren before arriving at RedBull and to stay there for almost 20 years, sign to join the team dressed in the iconic English green.
Officialized in September 2024, this arrival can only satisfy the entire team. In fact, sending a strong message to the competition by confirming Aston Martin's large-scale project, this decision by Newey to sign with them shows that the project is not only ambitiousbut very viable and interesting. And this, even for someone present in the category for almost 40 years.
The announcement of his departure last May from the Austrian stable Red Bull had the effect of a bomb in the paddock, not boding well for the latter who had a lot of business to settle at the start of the 2024 season.
The Briton having taken his time to define his future, many rumors and expectations had been created on its future transfer. We saw him everywhere at once
If for a time we believed his words to take distances with sport or to go and bring a new stone to his building in a other championshipeyes quickly turned towards Fiorano. The idea was already anchored in the heads of the majority of people that the transfer was going to be made official.
But the rumors of private tours around the Aston Martin site in Silverstone were heard. And soon, it was no longer just whispers, but reality.
In the team's press release announcing the signature d’Adrian Newey, Lawrence Stroll takes stock of the situation, obviously ravi of the upcoming collaboration with the famous Briton. The latter shares the same impatience to start working together, inspired and impressed by the project undertaken by the Canadian.
The two want each other safe to have the keys to making Aston Martin a world champion team. We hope for them that it works, even if the last time a management announced that they would fight for the title in the coming years, everything did not go as well as expected…
The Honda myth in the equation
The recipe is already mouth-watering, and Honda is not here yet! If we no longer present the Japanese brand, legend in and out of motorsport, she doesn't seem to be able to stay away from F1 for too long.
In May 2023, the Japanese brand formalizes his return inasmuch as Aston Martin engine partner for the 2026 season and beyond. Another big signing for the British team.
All eyes are now on around 2026a near future which announces great upheavals at the top of motorsport through the new FIA regulations and new horizons for Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team.
So, flamboyant future or empty words? Only time will tell.
