Aston Martin Team Principal Mike Krack has revealed the Silverstone-based Formula 1 outfit is working “flat out” on developing its 2025 F1 challenger.
Aston Martin is in an F1 no man’s land in 2024 and with six rounds remaining in 2024, it’s a safe bet that Aston Martin will finish fifth in the final Constructors’ standings.
Sat on 86 points, Aston Martin is 243 behind fourth-placed Mercedes (329) and 52 ahead of sixth-placed RB (34).
It’s no surprise then, that Aston Martin is already busy working on its 2025 F1 machine with an upgrade package for this year’s United States Grand Prix already in production.
“It’s already a couple of weeks where the focus has to be on the future,” Krack revealed.
“Now, obviously, with the delay that parts take, to produce the parts that will come, they have been signed off already quite a while ago.
“So at the moment, it’s flat out on 2025.”
New wind tunnel will bolster 2025 Aston Martin F1 challenger
Work on Aston Martin’s 2025 challenger will see out the team’s last few months sharing Mercedes’ wind tunnel.
In the new year, Aston Martin will bring its state-of-the-art wind tunnel online, which in theory should help develop the AMR25 throughout next season.
In-season development has been an arduous task for Aston Martin over the last two years, but Krack has already dismissed sharing a wind tunnel as “an easy excuse” behind its poor form.
Still, the AMR25 will also benefit from new technical hires at Aston Martin.
Technical Director Dan Fallows will be overseeing the AMR25’s early development and he will be next year by incoming Chief Technical Officer Enrico Cardile.
The duo will be watched over by incoming Managing Technical Partner Adrian Newey in March 2025.
So while progress from all of these elements is yet to come, Krack argues that the team has improved in several aspects across the last few years.
“You have a lot of metrics that you are using to check you know where you are, if you are progressing, if you’re not,” he explained.
“As an example, the pit stops. When we started in ’22 to set up these metrics, and we set ourselves targets, and we see where we are, you clearly see progress in terms of consistency, in terms of speed.
“We have fantastic race starts. There are a lot of positives there. With a lot of processes, we are making good progress.”
READ MORE: Fernando Alonso aiming to win third F1 title in ‘the next two or three years’
Discussion about this post