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☆ Hawkins becomes first woman in five years to test an F1 car
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Aston Martin driver ambassador and former W Series racer Jessica Hawkins has become the first woman in nearly five years to test a Formula One car, the Silverstone-based team announced on Tuesday. She alternated in the car with Brazilian test and reserve Felipe Drugovich. She joined Aston Martin as a driver ambassador in 2021. Formula One has not had a woman driver start a grand prix since Italian Lella Lombardi in 1976 but a number have tested the machinery. The last female driver to test before Hawkins was Colombia's Tatiana Calderon with Sauber, now Alfa Romeo, at Mexico City's Hermanos Rodriguez track in October 2018.

Persons: Aston Martin, Jessica Hawkins, Hawkins, James Bond, Felipe Drugovich, I’m, Mike Krack, Jessica, Lella Lombardi, Colombia's Tatiana Calderon, Mexico City's Hermanos Rodriguez, Alan Baldwin, Christian Schmollinger Organizations: Silverstone, Aston Martin, Sauber, Mexico City's, Thomson Locations: British, Budapest, Mexico

☆ Lance Stroll: Formula One driver suffers huge crash during Singapore GP qualifying
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Aimee Lewis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Formula One driver Lance Stroll will miss Sunday’s Singapore Grand Prix after the Canadian suffered a huge crash in Saturday’s qualifying, his Aston Martin team said. In a statement on Sunday, the team said the 24-year-old was “still sore” and that repairing the car was a “huge job.”Lance Stroll crashes during the qualifying. “Our priority now is that he makes a full and speedy recovery. Stroll is ninth in the drivers’ championship. The Japanese Grand Prix takes place on September 24.

Persons: Lance, Aston Martin, ”, Mohd Rasfan, Mike Krack, ” Lance, Caroline Chia Organizations: CNN, Singapore, Prix, Canadian, Getty Locations: AFP

☆ Aston Martin will keep the upgrades coming
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Alan Baldwin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Aston Martin will keep the upgrades flowing after going into Formula One's August break with Fernando Alonso third in the championship behind Red Bull's dominant leader Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez. With both titles a foregone conclusion, champions Red Bull -- winners of all 12 races so far -- and some others are turning their attention to next year's car but Aston Martin have other ideas. Aston Martin enjoy more wind tunnel time than top rivals as a consequence of their low ranking last year. After 12 of the 22 races last year, Aston Martin were languishing in ninth place and had scored only 19 points compared to their current haul of 196. "Obviously you need to see what directions you take, depending on what happens... in all the push, push, push for development we also have to realise that we have made big steps and it is important to also zoom out and see what you have achieved."

Persons: Aston Martin, Fernando Alonso, Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez, Mike Krack, Red Bull, Krack, Alonso, Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari, Alan Baldwin, Christian Radnedge Organizations: One's, Red, Sunday's Belgian, Prix, Aston, Spaniard, Ferrari, McLaren, Thomson Locations: Alpine

☆ Alonso starts on front row in Miami but win a long shot
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Steve Keating | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/4] May 6, 2023; Miami Gardens, Florida, USA; Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso (14) of Spain reacts after qualifying for the Miami Grand Prix at Miami International Autodrome. Mandatory Credit: John David Mercer-USA TODAY SportsMIAMI, May 6 (Reuters) - Fernando Alonso will start the Miami Grand Prix on the front row alongside pole sitter Sergio Perez, providing Aston Martin the chance for a win, believes team principal Mike Krack. The Red Bulls of Verstappen and Perez have been in a league of their own this season winning every grand prix, with three of the four races one-two finishes. If you start from the first row your aim has to be to win the race. Verstappen, last year's winner in Miami, will start ninth but Alonso guessed that he will see him on his exhaust by lap 25.

☆ F1 team bosses have their own light-bulb moment
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Alan Baldwin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

LONDON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - The late McLaren boss Teddy Mayer liked to compare Formula One drivers to interchangeable light-bulbs, declaring "you plug them in and they do the job", and nowadays the same might be said for team principals. The Frenchman is on his third different team, after stints at Sauber and Renault. "It shows also that the role of the team principal is maybe sometimes also a bit over-rated because if you can change it so quickly and there is no big impact, it tells also something. Sauber, with Swedish billionaire Finn Rausing as chairman of the board, will become the Audi works team from 2026. "But other than that we must not forget that F1 teams have developed into big organisations where the owners are not any more the team principals... some have engineers as team principals, some have more an old-fashioned rule."

☆ Alonso will challenge Aston Martin - Krack
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Alonso is set to make the move from Renault-owned Alpine to Aston Martin in 2023 as a replacement for four-times world champion Sebastian Vettel, who is retiring at the end of the current season. "We think having someone like Fernando is really, really important to make the next step as a team," Krack added. Aston Martin have had 11 top 10 finishes this season, with Vettel's sixth place at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix their best result. "You need to learn to manage champions, which we already did with Sebastian," Krack added. "I would not even say Sebastian is that difficult to manage if you are transparent, honest and straight.

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