Andy Cowell has replaced Mike Krack as the team principal of the Aston Martin Formula 1 team as part of the restructuring of its senior management ahead of the 2025 F1 season, Afrosport reports.
Krack will remain with the team as the chief trackside officer, which will pave the way for Cowell to take the team principal role as well as the CEO role.
Former Ferrari designer Enrico Cardile has also been appointed as chief technical officer and will oversee the design and build of Aston Martin’s new F1 cars.
Speaking of the announcement as team principal, Cowell said: “I have spent the last three months understanding and assessing our performance, and I’ve been incredibly impressed by the dedication, commitment, and hard work of this team.
“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.”
BREAKING: Andy Cowell assumes the role of CEO and Team Principal of Aston Martin, with Mike Krack moving to Chief Trackside Officer#F1 pic.twitter.com/NG85vxnT5O
— Formula 1 (@F1) January 10, 2025
Cowell is regarded as the brain behind Mercedes’ engine dominance at the start of the hybrid turbo era in 2014.
He left the German manufacturer in the middle of 2020, winning six constructors’ titles.
