Cowell replaces Krack as team principal in Aston Martin staff reshuffle · RaceFans

Aston Martin has replaced Mike Krack as its team principal almost three years to the day since his appointment.

Andy Cowell, the former Mercedes engine chief who joined the team last July, has been named CEO and team principal. Krack will remain with the team in the role of chief trackside officer.

Aston Martin explained the change was done for “clarity of leadership and as part of a shift to a flatter structure.”

Lawrence Stroll purchased the team in 2018 and rebranded it as Aston Martin in 2021. They enjoyed a strong start to the 2023 campaign and scored eight podium finishes that year, all thanks to Fernando Alonso.

However they failed to sustain that performance level. Although they finished fifth in the championship for the second season in a row, their points total fell from 280 to 94 last year.

The team continued to hire significant names from rival operations last season, including Cowell and former Red Bull chief technical officer Adrian Newey, who joins them this year. Now they are restructuring their technical division in order to improve their car development.

Under its new arrangement, Aston Martin has grouped its aerodynamics, engineering and performance divisions separately, each of which will report to Cowell. Krack will head up the trackside aspects of these divisions while Enrico Cardile, hired from Ferrari last year, will serve as chief technical officer at the team’s factory.

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Tom McCullough, who was previously the team’s performance director, has moved into a leadership role “where he will play a critical role in the expansion of the team’s broader range of racing categories,” said Aston Martin in a statement.

The shake-up of the technical department follows a three-month review of their performance by Cowell. “I’ve been incredibly impressed by the dedication, commitment and hard work of this team,” he said. “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.”