{"id":24884,"date":"2025-01-10T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/formula-1-andy-cowell-named-aston-martin-team-principal\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:47:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:47:02","slug":"formula-1-andy-cowell-named-aston-martin-team-principal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/formula-1-andy-cowell-named-aston-martin-team-principal\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1: Andy Cowell named Aston Martin team principal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Aston Martin&#8217;s new Formula 1 boss Andy Cowell will take on the role of team principal in addition to his position as chief executive officer.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 55-year-old, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/cjr49nzpp7jo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">joined Aston Martin in October<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Design legend Adrian Newey, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/c3rdgl74z5eo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">who is joining as managing technical partner on 2 March<\/a>, will sit at the top of the design and engineering structure alongside Cowell. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As part of the changes, Tom McCullough, who has led trackside engineering as performance director for some years, is moving to a new role with Aston Martin&#8217;s other racing categories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cowell, who was formerly head of Mercedes&#8217; F1 engine division from 2008-20, said: &#8220;I have spent the last three months understanding and assessing our performance, and I&#8217;ve been incredibly impressed by the dedication, commitment and hard work of this team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With the completion of the AMR Technology Campus and our transition in 2026 to a full works team, we are on a journey to becoming a championship-winning team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These organisational changes are a natural evolution of the multi-year plans that we have scheduled to make and I&#8217;m incredibly excited about the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/cx2j87dyxwvo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Martin&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24886,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24884\/revisions\/24886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}