Aston Martin, F1 constructor

Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack feels that the signing of Adrian Newey adds "credibility" to the grand plans that CEO Lawrence Stroll had outlined for taking charge at the team.Krack reckons that Newey's signing for 2025 will inspire the team's engineering talent, particularly those among the younger contingent - and means that the Silverstone-based squad can no longer be considered as ...

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Adrian Newey admitted that he didn't know where his Formula 1 future lay after his decision to quit the Red Bull team. There were plenty of options on the table from other teams, but projects outside of F1 and even retirement were considered by the revered designer.At his unveiling at Aston Martin on Tuesday, Newey spoke of needing a new challenge; with Red Bull, he'd helped turn it from a ...

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Adrian Newey's signing by the Aston Martin team has been hailed by team owner Lawrence Stroll as the "most exciting news" in the squad's history.The final confirmation, which came during a press conference at the team's Silverstone factory on Thursday, ends a period of intense speculation about the design legend's future – with no shortage of competitors trying to convince him to come on ...

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Adrian Newey's move to Aston Martin has been officially announced after months of speculation.The switch brings an end to the rumours surrounding the future of the technical guru who has earned more titles through his designs than any driver has won on track.But is this the right move? Our F1 writers take a look.Mark Mann-Bryans – Masterful Newey earned the right to decide on his next moveIn all ...

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Aston Martin owner Lawrence Stroll says star signing Adrian Newey was a "bargain" after making the legendary designer the technical leader and future shareholder of his Formula 1 team.After months of speculation Aston Martin finally confirmed on Tuesday that Newey would be joining the Silverstone-based squad from 1 March 2025, when he is free to join a rival F1 team following his Red Bull ...

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Add the record Formula 1 drivers' title hauls of Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton together and you only just surpass the 13 such championships cars designed by Adrian Newey have amassed in his long list of grand prix racing successes. And then there are those 12 constructors' crowns on top. This alone explains the clamour surrounding his Red Bull exit and impending arrival at Aston Martin ...

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Aston Martin Racing has officially won the battle over Adrian Newey, with the legendary Formula 1 designer taking up a role as Managing Technical Partner next year as well as becoming a shareholder.In a newly created role at the Silverstone-based team, Newey will oversee the ambitious squad's crucial 2026 car design for F1's all-new technical regulations.Newey's signature had been widely coveted ...

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Aston Martin’s expected confirmation later this morning that it has signed design legend Adrian Newey is a game-changing moment for the team.If there is one individual who has a bit of a midas touch, then Newey would be your prime candidate, having helped guide his three most recent teams (Williams, McLaren and Red Bull) to multiple championship successes. His tally of 12 constructors’ ...

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Ferrari's interest in signing Adrian Newey had cooled as the Scuderia did not wish to become involved in a bidding war with Aston Martin, Motorsport.com understands.Newey is set to be announced at Aston Martin after much in the way of speculation over his future, as he prepares to leave Red Bull after 18 years at the Milton Keynes squad.With Newey's value high given his success at Red Bull ...

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Adrian Newey’s move to the Aston Martin Formula 1 team looks set to be announced in the build-up to next week’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix.Following months of speculation about the future of the legendary F1 designer, who announced earlier this year that he would be leaving Red Bull, final confirmation of his plans is likely to come before the next race.While Newey was initially linked most ...

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Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack has revealed the squad is set for a "technical reset" after a disappointing second quarter of the Formula 1 season.The Silverstone-based outfit failed to make a similar winter-break kick forward to last season, where it briefly emerged as Red Bull's closest challenger on track, but remained one of the championship's top five teams on pace.But much like last ...

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Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack says there is “huge pressure” inside the squad to revive its Formula 1 results but claims owner Lawrence Stroll understands it will take time.This year, the team could not repeat its 2022-2023 off-season gains, where it rose from finishing seventh in the 2022 constructors’ championship to scoring six podiums in the first eight races, along with a missed ...

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Aston Martin arrived at Formula 1's Hungarian Grand Prix with a substantial update that it hopes will cure some handling quirks that have hurt its form recently.A previous upgrade that made its debut at Imola delivered more downforce, but also made the car nervous on the edge, which was not ideal for Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll.The revisions that appeared at the Hungaroring are, according to ...

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After its excellent, albeit surprising, start to the 2023 Formula 1 season, Aston Martin hadn't been able to preserve that momentum through the rest of the year and into 2024.Where Fernando Alonso scored 149 points in the opening 12 races of 2023, the veteran Spaniard has managed just 45 in the same number of races this term, without a podium finish among them.Explaining Aston Martin's apparent ...

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From heading into the current Formula 1 campaign braced to be at the back of the grid, Haas has far exceeded expectations.With back-to-back sixth placed finishes for Nico Hulkenberg having thrust it towards the front of the midfield battle and it now locked in a tight fight with RB for sixth in the constructors' championship, the German driver himself labelled it a “hell of a comeback.”But ...

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Fernando Alonso believes a double-points finish at the British Grand Prix was a step "back to normality" for Aston Martin after a difficult run of results in Formula 1.The British squad had scored points in each of the first six rounds of the championship, but a comprehensive upgrade introduced for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix made the AMR24 more difficult to drive.As a result, Aston Martin only ...

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Aston Martin has announced that Ferrari's former chassis technical director Enrico Cardile will join it next year as its F1 chief technical officer.Just 24 hours after Ferrari finally confirmed that Cardile was leaving, with it reported over the British Grand Prix that Aston Martin had secured his services, the timing of his move and his new role has now been revealed.Cardile now looks set to ...

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Ferrari has confirmed the departure of its Formula 1 chassis technical director Enrico Cardile, who is set to join the Aston Martin team.As Motorsport.com exclusively revealed back in May, Cardile had long been targeted by Aston Martin as part of the Silverstone squad’s efforts to push up the F1 grid.The Italian has a good reputation for the role he has played in developing Ferrari’s recent ...

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Toto Wolff says the Mercedes Formula 1 team "likes the thought" of supplying customer engines to Alpine in 2026 instead of Honda-bound Aston Martin.Alpine is considering abandoning its own Renault F1 power unit programme for the 2026 regulations and switch to becoming a customer team, with Mercedes thought to be the most likely source of engines for the Enstone-based squad.Read ...

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Former Mercedes Formula 1 engine chief Andy Cowell will replace ex-McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh as Aston Martin’s group CEO from 1 October, the team announced on Tuesday.Cowell is best known for overseeing Mercedes’ High Performance Powertrains division between 2013 and 2020, during which it built the engines that led the Silver Arrows squad to dominate F1 and win seven title doubles in ...

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Aston Martin has announced that Lance Stroll will race on with the team "for 2025 and beyond" in what is being billed as a contract extension for the Canadian driver whose father owns the team.Stroll has raced at Aston since 2019 his father Lawrence's consortium purchased the assets of what was the then the Force India squad the following year.He has completed 112 races so far for the team ...

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Aston Martin is to build a road-legal, track-focussed version of its Valour sportscar – the Valiant – that has been personally commissioned by its Formula 1 driver Fernando Alonso.Aston will produce 38 Valiants, which are to be front-engined and fitted with a 745PS 5.2 litre twin-turbo V12 power unit.The car also features wheel covers inspired by those used on Aston’s ‘Muncher’ car that ...

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Aston Martin has told Fernando Alonso that he must "hang on" for now amid the team's current Formula 1 struggles, as it battles to find time to bring much-needed improvements.Alonso was left frustrated after his home Spanish Grand Prix last weekend, where a lack of performance from the AMR24 left both him and team-mate Lance Stroll out of the points.Afterwards, he suggested the team had to ...

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Fernando Alonso has given a frank assessment of his Aston Martin team's performance in the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix, and has called on the team to talk less and deliver more.Alonso finished a disappointing 12th in his home race after only qualifying in 11th and pulled no punches in his post-race verdict saying the team "did not deserve to score any point".It comes after a poor run for the ...

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Aston Martin has been honest that upgrades it has brought to its Formula 1 car this year have made it more "difficult" to drive.Having delivered a host of developments to try to lift it closer to the front of the field, Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll have found that the AMR24 is a more troublesome beast to extract speed from on the limit.And, at a time when the F1 field is closing up in ...

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