“And why not?”. This is how it starts Andy Cowell his journey as the team’s new team principal Aston Martin. He does not want to remove anything related to the sporting aspirations of Alonso and the Green Team so far, beginning with the 2025 season starting in just over a month and a half to Australian F1 GP (March 14-16).
The former engine guru of Mercedesthat is an integral part in the titles of Lewis Hamilton with silver arrows and which was announced last year as the new signing of Aston Martin to occupy the position of CEOwas named some days ago as before also Team principal to replace with Mike Krack As part of a strong team restructuring driven by Lawrence Traveldissatisfied with the problems of his vehicle’s development in the last season and a half.
In such a position, Cowell does not hesitate that he will be able to restore the team’s situation and the pieces that come on the track from now represent the desired steps forward, something that did not happen in 2023 and 2024. And in the mean That is, Andy’s goal is high, optimistically. So he did not want to reject that Aston Martin could not copy in 2025 the incredible return made by McLaren since mid-2023.
McLaren started 2023 under the grid, but from the middle of that campaign they changed their vehicle and didn’t stop improving, until they had the best car in most tracks since the sixth round of 2024 Championship, something that is not yet, Lando Norris and the Orange Team are unaware of how to take advantage of the driver’s title, but they got the title of constructors. Cowell believes this is possible for Aston Martin.
“Look at what McLaren did. Why can’t we?”
“Can we win the F1 World Championship in 2025? Who thinks we can do? No one? See what McLaren did. Why don’t we?”He said in surprising statements on ‘F1 Checkered Flag Podcast’. This is probably just a message of strength, of faith, to send positive energy to your team, to encourage change, a point of change. Or maybe he really believes.
However, despite how much the green car base could improve in 2025 compared to 2024, Alonso has repeated many occasions last season that the priority should be the creation of a 2026 car. to take advantage of the massive change in the regulations that will be released that year. Moreover, they will do it at Adrian Newey It is on the drawing board and with its new wind tunnel and simulator built and carried out.
Aston Martin completed 2024 with one of the worst cars on the grid, which is the 7th, 8th, or 9th car depending on the type of tracks in the second part of the course. Cars of 2025 will be an evolution of those in 2024 and that is why thinking about a revolution that allows Aston Martin to go from fighting behind to the front seems to be almost unimaginable. But Cowell doesn’t put it aside. It may be in a hurry, but Andy prefers to believe.
“McLaren’s change is incredible. I think it’s partly because of the leadership of engineering and it’s something we can do,” He assures.
“The first school my children attended was an assembly hall where you read the following motto: ‘Aim for the stars, but if you miss, aim for the moon.’ Throughout my career as a motto, “he commented. Maybe that’s what explains your previous sentence. His way of working is the purpose of the high.
“We put the right people in the most important job,” he said, believing in the team’s talent and the fruits of their dedication: “Normally, when you work hard, the result is good.”
Source: La Verdad
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