Aston Martin has continued to strengthen with recruits from Formula 1 rivals with the acquisition of Andor Hegedus as its new Senior Project Designer from Red Bull.
Hegedus announced via the LinkedIn platform that he had arrived at Aston Martin on the eve of the 2024 season, the fourth running the famed British marque’s moniker.
Having entered F1 with the now-defunct Marussia team in 2011, Hegedus was hired by Red Bull as a Pit Gear Designer before being promoted up the ranks in August 2018.
The Hungarian engineer had continued to serve as the Milton-Keynes-based squad’s Project Design Engineer over the last five years, with his responsibilities extending to “planning, managing and designing pit stop equipment and pit gear projects”.
Red Bull has become notorious for retaining the slickest operation in the entire F1 pit lane and the team has clinched the DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award every single year since 2018.
The Austrian outfit had also boasted the world record for the fastest pit stop with Max Verstappen stationary for only 1.82 seconds at the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix. That remained the benchmark until McLaren usurped it by 0.002s in Qatar last October.
Nevertheless, Red Bull still topped the standings for the sixth consecutive year, with that attention to detail playing an integral part in the team’s recent title dominance.
However, 2023 would mark Hegedus’s final campaign with Red Bull and he has headed to Aston Martin to take up a similar role within the Silverstone squad’s organisation.
“We wear green in the next chapter. I am very happy to start a new stage as senior project designer at Aston Martin. Thank you very much for the support and messages,” Hegedus said on LinkedIn.
Hegedus has followed in the footsteps of Dan Fallows, who departed his role as Head of Aerodynamics at Red Bull to spearhead Aston Martin’s charge up the grid in 2022.
After successive placings of seventh in the Constructors’ standings, Aston Martin provided a renewed threat last season that saw it emerge as a regular podium scorer.
Although its competitiveness would wane and McLaren overhauled the team for fourth in the championship, Aston Martin accrued 255 points more than the previous season.
