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SILVERSTONE, England (AP) — Aston Martin has replaced Mike Krack as team principal but is keeping him in a high-profile role at Formula 1 races after a disappointing 2024 season.
The team said Friday that Krack, who had been team principal since 2022, would move to a new role as Chief Trackside Officer focusing on “getting the most performance out of the car at the racetrack”.
Managing director Andy Cowell, who led Mercedes’ engine programme in its title series in the 2010s, will now become team principal. Cowell joined the team last year and became executive leader in October. Krack’s athletic team will report to Cowell, as will the staff. at Aston Martin’s headquarters in England.
Aston Martin said the upgrade was aimed at ensuring “clarity of leadership and as part of a transition to a flatter structure”.
Aston Martin was fifth in the constructors’ standings in 2024, the same position as in 2023. However, with Aston Martin aiming to become a title-winning team in future, the season was widely seen as a step backward as it lost ground to better-performing rivals like McLaren and Ferrari.
Fernando Alonso has been on the podium 8 times with Aston Martin in 2023, but the team’s most productive result in 2024 was fifth place at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
The organization shakeup also comes ahead of the arrival in March of car design great Adrian Newey. He left Red Bull last year and will have the title of “managing technical partner.”
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