Everything indicated that it would be a “game of musical chairs” between Audi and Aston Martin: the team principal from the first he would leave and take the place of Adrian Newey, who is accumulating the role of “boss” and chief designer and Aston.
In fact, the role of Adrian Newey, aerodynamics genius, as team leader of Aston Martin, was never meant to be permanent, guarantees the Silverstone team, in response to market rumors, which put the entire specialized press on alert. However, Lance Stroll’s team said in a statement sent this Thursday, March 19, “Adrian Newey remains as team leader.” Everything stays the same, after all, at least for now it stops in the dark green car garage.
What seems to be certain, despite the announcements, is that Newey wants to dedicate himself only to technical issues and is not available to deal with the daily management and bureaucracy that leading the team requires of him. The engineer ended up accumulating roles at the end of last year, after Andy Cowell, then CEO of Aston Martin, left the team.
And Newey’s concentration on the technical aspect seems to be indispensable, at a time when the team where Stroll and Fernando Alonso race faces serious problems with its single-seaters: battery-related issues, lack of mileage and a final Grand Prix in which neither car finished the race, in China, put the entire team on alert.
Jonathan Wheatley would then have been the name chosen to take on the same position at Aston Martin – and the international press even guarantees that the conversations were held personally between Newey and Wheatley.
But if at Aston Martin things seem to be in the same phase, everything is moving to stay (for now) the same, this Friday, a week away from the third race of the seasonAudi announced the departure of team principala year after his hiring (when the team was still Sauber, preparing the transition to the German brand).
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