Following Otmar Szafnauer’s departure as team principal last week, Aston Martin have confirmed the appointment of Mike Krack as their new team boss. Previously BMW’s head of race and test engineering, Krack worked with Aston Martin driver Sebastian Vettel as an engineer at the Swiss BMW Sauber team over a decade ago ago, and is
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Aston Martin have confirmed that CEO and team principal Otmar Szafnauer has left the team with immediate effect. He was linked with a move to the Alpine F1 Team back in November, but he denied having plans of leaving Aston Martin. Szafnauer originally joined the outfit back in 2009 when it was named Force India.
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Lance Stroll and Valtteri Bottas could swap teams at the end of the season, with the young Canadian likely to be preferred to George Russell by Sir Lewis Hamilton. That’s according to 1997 F1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve, who believes Stroll could fill Bottas’ shoes at Mercedes and be a strong second driver without disrupting
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Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll has said that he believes his son, Lance, is roughly matching his new Aston Martin team-mate Sebastian Vettel. The four-time World Champion joined the Aston Martin F1 Team in 2021 after being axed by Ferrari last year, and he scored the newly rebranded racing outfit’s maiden podium in Baku earlier this
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Former F1 racer Gerhard Berger has said it is too soon to make judgments about Sebastian Vettel’s performance at Aston Martin, with the German only having competed in two races with his new team. Vettel joined the Silverstone-based team after a woeful final season with Ferrari in 2020 – and many in the paddock had
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Four-time World Champion Sebastian Vettel is a “finished man” but it is unlikely that the Aston Martin F1 Team will fire him, former F3000 driver Jason Watt has said. Vettel has struggled in the opening two rounds of the 2021 Championship with Aston Martin, and Watt said it is clear that he is still under
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Nico Hulkenberg has been signed as the newly rebranded Aston Martin F1 Team’s reserve and development driver, the constructor announced on Wednesday. Hulkenberg raced in three grand prix with Racing Point last season after Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll both tested positive for COVID-19 (at different points of the campaign.) Follow us on Google News
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The Aston Martin F1 Team will be keeping an eye on Mercedes’ performance gains this season, as both team’s 2021 cars have a similar aerodynamic design philosophy and share numerous components, team principal Otmar Szafnauer has said. Mercedes and Aston Martin have both been hit hard by the 2021 regulation changes, which mandated cuts to
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Sebastian Vettel was tipped by many in the paddock to succeed at Aston Martin after leaving the seemingly toxic environment at Ferrari, but his debut race weekend with the newly rebranded team was one to forget. READ: Nico Rosberg Was Worse Than ‘Inferior Driver’ Valtteri Bottas, Ex-F1 Racer Claims Vettel was expected to struggle in
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Sebastian Vettel’s Aston Martin debut was disastrous, with him finishing down in P15 and picking up five penalty points in a single day. READ: Wolff: ‘Strategy Made All The Difference’ In Hamilton’s Triumph Over Verstappen There were many factors at play, including the four-time World Champion’s very limited running in pre-season testing and him getting
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