Aston Martin’s new Formula 1 boss Andy Cowell will take on the role of team principal in addition to his position as chief executive officer.
The 55-year-old, who joined Aston Martin in October, takes over the team boss role from Mike Krack, who has been effectively demoted into a new role focused on performance at the race track.
Enrico Cardile, who has joined from Ferrari as chief technical officer, will be in charge of designing the race cars. There is still no official date for when Cardile, who left Ferrari last July, starts work for Aston Martin.
Design legend Adrian Newey, who is joining as managing technical partner on 2 March, will sit at the top of the design and engineering structure alongside Cowell.
The moves mark a major restructure for a team that has invested millions in a new factory and wind tunnel with the ambition of becoming world champions.
“Cowell named Aston Martin team principal”
But the team fell back in the second half of the year, and after starting 2024 less competitively than 2023 but with some strong qualifying performances, the same pattern developed.
Dan Fallows, who had joined Aston Martin in 2022, was removed from his position as technical director late last year as a result. He remains with the group in another capacity.
The recruitment of Cowell, Newey and Cardile were the biggest moves in a series of developments in which billionaire owner Lawrence Stroll is seeking to turn the team into front-runners.
Stroll has funded a state-of-the-art new factory at their base in Silverstone and a new wind tunnel there is about to come on stream.Two-time champion Alonso last year signed a new two-year contract that will keep him at the team until the end of 2026, by which time he will be 45.
He said in a BBC Sport interview last December that he “still dreams of a third world title” but would go into 2026 thinking of it as his last season in F1, but did not rule out staying on if he continued to feel competitive.
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