Lawrence Stroll has dedicated his enormous value to turning the squad from a competitive midfield Aston Martin to one that can contend for world championships and the team’s technical director, Dan Fallows plays a key role.
Dan Fallows, technical director of Aston Martin, stated that the team’s new wind tunnel, which will be operational later this year and is a “very important” step toward the team’s goals, will provide the Silverstone-based Formula 1 squad “more flexibility.”
Funding a brand-new, three-building complex on Aston Martin’s current Silverstone location, which will include a brand-new simulator and wind tunnel, has been a major component of that project.
“So the new simulator that we’ve got is, you know, that’s obviously a state-of-the-art simulator, which is coming online later in the year, as is the wind tunnel, both of those are, you know, huge improvements for us.” Fallows stated.
Currently, Aston Martin uses the wind tunnel owned by Mercedes in Brackley, and Fallows stated that having their own facility for aerodynamic testing will help provide the team with “more flexibility” when building their car for the upcoming season.
“It allows us to do much more of our own testing in the way that we want, and it just gives us much more flexibility than we have at the moment, there’s been, you know, lots of examples of things that we would have liked to have done that we weren’t able to do. There’s a reason we spend millions and millions of pounds on these things.” Fallows said.
The huge amount of money that is being invested in the new Aston Martin factory and its new and improved modern facilities will complement a number of other significant choice that Lawrence Stroll has made.
Other than that, Fallow has also been a key figure in hiring a few essential staff members that has escalated once more in 2024. Enrico Cardile, a former technical director for Ferrari’s chassis, will take over as Aston’s chief technical officer at the beginning of the 2025 season, while Andy Cowell, a former managing director of Mercedes AMG HPP, will take over as the team’s group chief executive officer in October.
The new wind tunnel is just one piece of the puzzle that Fallows believes helps the team achieve its “aspirations” as they get ready for Aston Martin to be a contender in 2026.
“It’s really important for a team that has the aspirations that we do that we give ourselves the right tools to have them to be able to move into that next phase. So yeah, incredibly excited about getting in [the wind tunnel].”
