Aston Martin: Andy Cowell appointed team principal as Mike Krack demoted to chief track officer in organizational restructure | F1 news
Aston Martin has appointed Andy Cowell as team principal after demoting Mike Krack from the role in an organizational restructuring.
Former Mercedes motoring guru Cowell joined the team as group chief executive in October last year, but has now been appointed team director and chief executive.
Krack, who has been Aston Martin’s team principal since 2022, will become managing director at the track as part of changes that split their aerodynamics, engineering and performance departments into separate track and campus operations.
Aston Martin, which has moved to a new campus at Silverstone in 2023, says the changes are designed for “leadership clarity and as part of a move to a flatter structure” and to help achieve “its mission to become a championship-winning company”.
“I’ve spent the last three months understanding and assessing our performance, and I’ve been incredibly impressed by the dedication, commitment and hard work of this team,” said Cowell, the mastermind behind the engines that have helped Mercedes win eight consecutive constructors’ titles. titles from 2014 to 2021.
“With the completion of the AMR Technology Campus and our transition to a full-time team in 2026, alongside our strategic partners Honda and Aramco, we are well on our way to becoming a championship-winning team.
“These organizational changes are a natural evolution of the multi-year plans we’ve been planning to make, and I’m incredibly excited about the future.”
The announcement also confirmed that Enrico Cardile will take over the position of chief technical officer he signed last July, with the Italian having just been cleared to take up the job after serving his gardening leave following his departure from Ferrari.
Aston Martin’s statement did not mention legendary designer Adrian Newey, who joins the team as managing technical partner in March after leaving Red Bull.
A statement from the team said: “The team, based at the AMR Technology Campus, will be led by the team’s new Chief Technical Officer, Enrico Cardile, with the team now able to focus 100 percent of their time on the competitive ingenuity challenge of creating a new race. Enrico will oversee the architecture, design and fabrication of the new racing cars.”
The changes come after Aston Martin stepped back in 2024 after an encouraging campaign in 2023. Although both campaigns ended fifth in the constructors’ standings, Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll’s points total dropped from 280 to 94.
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