After Aston Martin presented the livery for their 2025 F1 car at the F1 75 season launch event in London, the reveal of the AMR25 took place today. The digital reveal was shared across the team’s social media accounts, alongside relevant videos and images.
The AMR25 will make its track debut tomorrow at the Bahrain International Circuit when the Silverstone-based team completes its first filming day of the year. Both Aston Martin drivers—Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll—will log their first miles in the 2025 F1 car two days before pre-season testing commences at the same venue.
Fernando Alonso #14
“We learnt a lot in 2024 and the team have been using that as a driving force as we head into this season with the AMR25. The competition is going to be very tight in this last year of the current regulations, but I know the team have been working hard at the AMRTC to make sure we are ready. I’m excited to get back on track; I am ready to help this team get stronger and continue this journey with Aston Martin Aramco.”
Lance Stroll #18
“Everyone at the AMRTC has put in a lot of work over the winter to improve for 2025. As a team, we all want to perform well and we will continue to learn over the course of the year. What we are building here is such an exciting project with great tools and talented people, and 2025 is a key year for us to make progress. I’m looking forward to the season ahead and getting back in the cockpit, starting with pre-season testing in Bahrain.”
Andy Cowell, CEO & Team Principal, Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™ Team said:
“I’m excited to get this season started and see the AMR25 hit the track tomorrow in Bahrain. It’s the culmination of tremendous hard work and dedication at the AMR Technology Campus. We are all inspired by the DNA of Aston Martin and we have a relentless pursuit of excellence, both on and off the track.”For this year’s car we’ve really taken on board the lessons and feedback from last season. We’ve focused on creating a more driveable car for Lance and Fernando and we’ve pushed hard to make it more benign. We expect it to be a tight and competitive field from the get-go in Australia, so we know it won’t be easy. Our aims are realistic with a view to how we can continually improve in all areas, especially as we, like all teams, approach a vital shake-up of the regulations in 2026.”
How Aston Martin have fared in the ground effect era so far
Since the reintroduction of ground effect to F1 in 2022, Aston Martin have encountered varying degrees of difficulty on track. Barring the first half of the 2023 F1 season, their trajectory has been rather precarious with one seventh and two fifth place finishes in the constructors’ championship.
Bagging only 55 points in total, the first year of the new ground effect era saw Aston Martin struggle from the get-go due to a poorly designed car. With both Sebastian Vettel and Stroll failing regularly to make it out of Q1 across the first half of 2022, they abandoned the launch sidepod concept early on.
The mid-season revamp and the later upgrades, significantly inspired by the development of Red Bull’s RB18, propelled the British marque into the battle for sixth place. However, their performance gains weren’t enough, and Alfa Romeo beat them in the standings on countback.
With an aggressive development target and wholesale changes to the car, Aston Martin started their 2023 campaign with a bang. They emerged as Red Bull’s closest challengers, and Alonso secured six podiums in the first eight rounds.
However, with the Silverstone-based squad unable to find an answer to their aerodynamic inefficiencies and rivals Mercedes, Ferrari, and McLaren gaining the upper hand in the mid-season development battle, they finished the season in an underwhelming fifth place.
While Aston Martin hoped to replicate their success from early 2023, a draggy package and misguided development direction hindered their progress across last year. The AMR24 showed some potential at the start of the season, especially in qualifying, and this form allowed them to retain fifth place in the championship. Unfortunately, a series of failed upgrades saw them finish the season without any top-three results.
Major reshuffle in management and technical team
With them seemingly heading into the final year of the ground effect era on the backfoot, Aston Martin have undergone a major restructuring before their 2025 F1 car, the AMR25, hits the track.
The British outfit made headlines in September last year when they signed technical guru Adrian Newey as their Managing Technical Partner as well as a shareholder. However, Red Bull’s former CTO does not start work in his new role until March 1, 2025.
In the meantime, Dan Fallows left his position as Aston Martin’s Technical Director in November, with Ferrari’s erstwhile chassis technical director Enrico Cardile assuming the role of Chief Technical Officer last month.
As part of a senior management reshuffle last month, Andy Cowell has started performing double duty as the CEO and the Team Principal of Aston Martin. Meanwhile, they have demoted former team boss Mike Krack to the position of Chief Trackside Officer.
Tom McCullough, who held the position of Performance Director and oversaw trackside operations, has remained in a group leadership position. Aston Martin expects him to play a pivotal role in the expansion of the team’s broader range of racing categories.
Despite their points total dropping from 280 in 2023 to 94 last year, the Silverstone-based team is intent on becoming title challengers as new engine and design regulations come into effect in 2026. Furthermore, in view of their new works partnership with Honda from next season, these changes have been introduced to split their aerodynamics, engineering, and performance departments into separate trackside and campus-based operations for optimal efficiency.
Aston Martin’s 2025-driver line-up
Aston Martin heads into the 2025 F1 season with an unchanged driver line-up comprising Alonso and Stroll. Having extended his contract last year, the two-time world champion will continue to drive for the British outfit until at least the end of 2026. The Spaniard will partner Stroll, who begins his fifth season with the team since it rebranded from Racing Point in 2021.
Despite Alonso outperforming teammate Stroll by a wide margin once again, he finished no higher than fifth in the races last season. Nonetheless, he extracted the most out of the package and delivered some remarkable qualifying performances at the start of 2024, notably his second row starts in Jeddah and Shanghai.
While the car regressed with each upgrade package, the 43-year-old still picked up good results on a fairly regular basis. His drives in Japan, Canada, Belgium, Azerbaijan, Singapore, and Qatar were all instrumental in Aston Martin finishing comfortably in fifth place in the championship standings last year.
Although the AMR24 was often tricky to drive, Stroll managed to score points only six times last season. In fact, he failed to score a point in the final eleven rounds of 2024. Along with being significantly slower than his teammate, the Canadian also committed silly errors like rear-ending Daniel Ricciardo before the safety car restart in China and clumsily beaching his car in the gravel trap after going off on the formation lap in Brazil.
As their performances in recent years have clearly demonstrated, Aston Martin cannot solely rely on Alonso to maximise their results on track and require Stroll to pull his weight if they intend to establish themselves as a top team.
