Für das bisherige Team Force India/Racing Point bricht mit der Namensänderung in Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One Team eine neue Ära an. Für Sebastian Vettel ebenfalls.
von Achim Stahn
Aston Martin Executive Chairman Lawrence Stroll:
„Ein Höhepunkt in der Motorsportgeschichte. Denn der AMR21 ist der erste Formel 1 Wagen, der die berühmten Flügel trägt, seit Maurice Trintignant in seinem Aston Martin DBR5 die Ziellinie 1960 in Silverstone überquerte.“
Lawrence Stroll sieht die Formel 1 auch als Techniklieferant für die Serienmodelle von Aston Martin.
Am Steuer des Rennwagens mit den traditonellen grünen Farbe von Aston Martin (British Racing Green) sitzen Sebastian Vettel und der überaus talentierte Lance Stroll.
Eine hervorragende Kombination aus Erfahrung und Jugend.
Für die notwendige Leistung sorgt ein Mercedes-AMG F1 M12 E
Performance Motor mit Hybridtechnik.
Das erste volle Testprogramm absolviert der Wagen in Bahrain vom 12 bis 14 März.
Lance Stroll (22):
„Wir waren gegen Ende der vergangenen Saison sehr gut unterwegs, diesen Schwung wollen wir in die neue Saison mitnehmen.“
Sebastian Vettel (33):
„Auch für mich ist das ein aufregender Neuanfang.“
Important moment in Aston Martin’s history: famous Wings return to the sport
Aston Martin is back at the pinnacle of global motorsport after the Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One Team proudly revealed its 2021 FIA Formula One
World Championship contender.
The stunning new AMR21
heralds the beginning of a truly significant chapter in the 108-year
history of the brand, and carries the hopes of racing fans around the
globe ahead of its debut in the Bahrain Grand Prix later this month.
The AMR21 returns the British ultra-luxury marque to the pinnacle of world motorsport for the first time in more than 60 years.
Described by Aston Martin Executive Chairman Lawrence Stroll as an
‘important event in automotive history’, the new contender will be the
first works Formula 1 car to carry the famous wings since Maurice
Trintignant’s DBR5 crossed the finish line at Silverstone in 1960.
The AMR21, to be raced this season by:
- four-time F1World
Champion Sebastian Vettel (Germany)
- rising star Lance Stroll (Canada)
The car carries a striking Aston Martin Racing Green livery, the famous and traditional racing colours.
It is also bedecked by a host of global partners.
Led by American IT
giant Cognizant, while the chassis features a magenta stripe down the
side in reference to the team’s longstanding partner BWT.
New factory
at Silverstone
A new 200,000
square-foot facility will complement the existing Aston Martin F1 factory
at Silverstone when completed in the second half of 2022.
The team
is well positioned to become an innovation lab to drive forward the
brand’s future road car technologies.
These will include the suite of
mid-engined sportscars, inspired by the Aston Martin Valkyrie, which
will become central to the product portfolio through the next decade.
It may have been absent from F1
for 61 years, but Aston Martin’s competitive credentials are firmly
intact – the company was formed by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford in
1913 with motorsport at the heart of its endeavour.
Next year will mark a
century since Aston Martin made its grand prix debut (in France 1922),
and the brand has enjoyed sustained success in sportscar racing,
including overall victory in the 1959 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Most recently
Aston Martin became a double class winner with the Vantage GTE in last
year’s race at La Sarthe and is the reigning GT FIA World Endurance
Manufacturers’ champion.
The Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One
Team also boasts a strong bloodline, building on the foundations of
Team Silverstone, which in its various guises has won five grands prix,
and is coming off the back of a race-winning campaign as the Racing
Point Formula One Team, having been revitalized under the leadership of Lawrence Stroll and Team Principal and CEO Otmar Szafnauer.
The
new AMR21 is powered by a turbo-charged Mercedes-AMG F1 M12 E Performance
engine with hybrid energy recovery.
The racecar will have a full test programme at Bahrain on 12-14 March.
Executive
Chairman, Aston Martin Lagonda, Lawrence Stroll:
“I’ve dreamed
about this day for a very long time. I’ve always been a car guy and I’ve
always loved racing, too. My first dream was to own a Formula One
team. My second dream was to acquire a significant shareholding in
Aston Martin Lagonda. Today is about the merging of those two dreams.
So, as I say, today is all about dreams, and it shows that dreams really
can come true, in the shape of our new AMR21.
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