F1 team REPLACE team principal ahead of 2025 season

Aston Martin have made a change in their Formula 1 operations, with Mike Krack moving out of his team principal role.

A surprisingly positive 2023 season gave way to a hugely disappointing 2024, the latter season ending without a single podium finish after eight for Fernando Alonso alone the year prior.

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Aston Martin harbour ambitions of becoming a championship-winning outfit in seasons to come, with the arrival of design legend Adrian Newey likely to bolster their performance when new regulations sweep into the sport in 2026.

On top of this, the team boast two-time world champion Fernando Alonso as one of their drivers, with the Spaniard driving superbly in 2023 to pick up eight podiums and finish fourth in the drivers' championship.

Aston Martin appoint new team principal

Now, it appears as though the team's dismal performance throughout 2024 has had major consequences, with Krack being removed from the team principal position that he has held since 2022.

Krack will instead become chief trackside officer amid a restructuring of the team's management positions, with group CEO Andy Cowell stepping up to become team principal and CEO.

Aston Martin have decided to change the team's aerodynamics, engineering and performance departments into separate, dedicated trackside and AMR Technology Campus-based teams, with Krack being chief of the trackside departments and Cowell overseeing it all.

On top of this, the impending arrivals of Newey and former Ferrari star Enrico Cardille as chief technical officer are set to give the team a more competitive edge, while performance director Tom McCullough will take up a new leadership role.

Speaking on the plethora of changes, new team principal Cowell said in an official statement: "I have 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.

"With the completion of the AMR Technology Campus and our transition in 2026 to a full works team, alongside our strategic partners Honda and Aramco, we are on a journey to becoming a Championship-winning team.

"These organisational changes are a natural evolution of the multi-year plans that we have scheduled to make and I'm incredibly excited about the future."

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