For once, it’s not Alpine! Andy Cowell becomes team principal at Aston Martin as predecessor Mike Krack takes new role amid restructuring
A difficult 2024 financial year
Aston Martin finished the 2024 season in fifth place in the constructors’ championship, but suffering a sharp decline in performance. 2024 was clearly a disappointing year, with performances continuing to decline during the season, while on the contrary, Alpine managed to recover. In 2023, AMR finished very close to Mercedes, with 280 points, 9 podiums and a 4e place for Alonso. In 2024, the balance sheet fell to 94 points, without the slightest podium.
Aston Martin has announced that Andy Cowell, the former boss of Mercedes’ engine department between 2013 and 2020, will now take on the role of team principal in addition to his role as CEO, with immediate effect, with Mike Krack moving to position of track director as part of an organizational restructuring.
Cowell – who previously joined the team in October as CEO – will, as team principal, oversee the team’s aerodynamics, engineering and performance departments, both on the track and on the AMR technological campus, attached to it.
Krack, who has served as team principal since 2022, is undoubtedly facing a disappointing 2024 season and will focus on getting the car’s best performance on track in his role as track director. A definite downgrade, but for the moment it remains in the organization chart.
The team based at the AMR technology campus, meanwhile, will be led by new technical director Enrico Cardile, joining from Ferrari, while Tom McCullough will remain within the group in a management role.
-Cardile will oversee the architecture, design and construction of the new race cars, having joined the team following his role as chassis and aerodynamic technical director at Ferrari last year.
McCullough, who served as performance director and worked with the team for 11 years, is expected to play a role in expanding the team’s wider range of racing categories.
“With the completion of the AMR Technology Campus and our transition in 2026 to a full factory team, alongside our strategic partners Honda and Aramco, we are poised to become a champion team.
“These organizational changes are a natural evolution of the multi-year plans we have planned and I am extremely excited about the future. »
This restructuring foreshadows big changes for Aston Martin, which, in addition to its investments in infrastructure, will receive the new Honda engine from 2026 as part of an exclusive partnership and will count in its ranks a certain Adrian Newey, undoubtedly expected as the Messiah.
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