Aston Martin boss hints at F1 entry - here's what it could look like Aston Martin boss Andy Palmer says the company is open to joining F1 - if the sports new owners can bring in cost control to the sport. The luxury car maker is currently a sponsor of Red Bull Racing, but Palmer says a proper Aston F1 team is something they are considering. "We sit on the periphery of F1, with the Valkyrie, and with Red Bull," Palmer told Autosport. https://driv3trib3.com/p/aston-martin-boss-hints-at-f1-entry-Dd0wKwxURDqDp_-zbh8Mjw?iid=UBe_-9JTQdCcD9JN8gkYJw Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Mercedes is only involved with Aston on the electronics side. I see Cosworth powering both IF the formula is simpler and cheaper.
That's a messy situation. Renault power Red Bull with Tag Heur rebadged engines, Aston Martin is the logo on the nose, Red Bull and Aston make an hypercar with Cosworth engines, Mercedees owns part of Aston and are also Renault partners. They could just become all one company?
Lol....I just see RedBull unhappy with Renault at the current formula. Come 2020 into 2021, if the hype of F1 going to cheaper and simpler engines, Redbull will make the switch to Cosworth along with Aston joining the fray IMO. Mercedes only has 5% stake in Aston, hardly anything but a proxy vote and an invite to a conference call or meeting. They only help Aston with their production cars electronics. From the onset though, it does look muddy.
Hope it happens. AM was in F-1 before - but did not do well at all...and they had one of the best ever drivers - Jim Clark....
As cool as it would be they will likely see the promises to reduce costs go unfulfilled and they will drift over to Formula E instead.
About that Mercedes yesterday announced on their twitter that they decided that they would go into Formula E they would quit DTM for concentration of F1 and FE.
It would be cool to have more teams..but aston doesn't bring anything with it's name...it's not associated with f.1...it's just like jaguar before...
That rendering is awesome. That said I highly doubt they enter the series. F1 will still be hugely expensive even with cost controls in place.
Er wrong, Jim never drove for Aston Martin. Roy Salvadori and Carroll Shelby did. The car was an outdated piece of crap. Pete
Unless the new formula is extremely simple, cheap and castrating, I don´t see this happening. Aston Martin can barely build their road cars engines alone, much less a F1 engine.
Your statement intrigued me, so I went to check the records. Aston Martin raced in F1 in 1959 and 1960. The drivers were Roy Salvadori, Carroll Shelby and Maurice Trintignant. There is no trace of Jim Clark. In 1959, Clark raced in Formula Junior, and in 1960 a Lotus in some F1 races.
Ilmor seeking partner for 2021 F1 engine project https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/illien-seeking-partner-2021-engine-project-933169/ Is it a coincidence that Ilmor seeks a partner just as Aston makes noise about entering F1 ?
Ilmor also built the one-off pushrod Indy engine, Mercedes bought their project later. Ilmor was since revived as a different company.
