2025 Aston Martin | Aramco F1 Team

[RedNEO]

People who think Aston shouldn’t work on 2025 are completely clueless how F1 works. Aston would go into 2026 with ZERO confidence very low morale and no clue what they see actually works on track. 2025 is important to build confidence and gain momentum and Newey will absolutely play a part in assisting with updates. It’s got nothing to do with being Alonso fans like some user tried suggesting. Knowledge is knowledge no matter what the year or regulations and you won’t gain knowledge by doing nothing and hoping it works out next year without learning how to make a fast car

[Nikosar]

The term "technical director" was pretty misleading at AMR in the last years and the term is not used anymore.

Fallows joined the team with this titel, working on the same level as Furbatto (engineering director) and McCullough (perfomance director), he was not their superior, all 3 were reporting to Green (the head of the technical department, officially called CTO).

At the start of the 2023 season Green was moved aside (rumours say because he didn't get along with Whitmarsh). I guess at this time they had the "McLaren structure", 1 head for each department, but no head for all departments anymore.

That changed in 2024 again, when Bob Bell joined the team as "executive director". In the press release the team described him as the guy "with the overall responsibility for the Technical, engineering and Perfomance functions". So Bell is more or less the successor of Green.

Now it is clear that Cardile, once he joins, will be the new Green/Bell, with Newey somewhere above him.

Bell seems to be (also looking at his age) a temporary solution since 2024.

The successor of Fallows is Eric Blandin. Not called "technical director" anymore but "aerodynamics director".

With the arrival of Gioacchino Vino as the new head of aerodynamics, do we expect Eric Blandin to change positions? Will he work under Eric Blandin?

[OnEcRiTiCaL]

People who think Aston shouldn’t work on 2025 are completely clueless how F1 works. Aston would go into 2026 with ZERO confidence very low morale and no clue what they see actually works on track. 2025 is important to build confidence and gain momentum and Newey will absolutely play a part in assisting with updates. It’s got nothing to do with being Alonso fans like some user tried suggesting. Knowledge is knowledge no matter what the year or regulations and you won’t gain knowledge by doing nothing and hoping it works out next year without learning how to make a fast car

Exactly, I think they decided to do almost nothing, since the problem in Mercedes windtunnel and the lot of correlation issues. I don't know why they get always different results with their tools than on the track, but seems like Redbull exactly in the same shoes since last year. They say is all because the wind tunnel not designed for this type of cars and also old. But the continous rules or even tyres changes middle of the season also doesn't help at all,because all teams got slower by a second just because of regulation changes. Unfortunately we didn't see from it ,just the lap times.

[-wkst-]

With the arrival of Gioacchino Vino as the new head of aerodynamics, do we expect Eric Blandin to change positions? Will he work under Eric Blandin?

No. Mercedes also has an aero director (Jarrod Murphy), like Blandin at AMR. Vino worked as chief aerodynamicist at Mercedes and works in the same position at AMR.