Aston Martin has unveiled the team’s 2025 Formula 1 car, the AMR25, which has been described as “close to 100 per cent new”.
The Silverstone-based squad showcased the precise livery that will adorn its cars across the upcoming campaign last week in London at the F1 75 season launch event.
The brand’s revised British Racing Green colour scheme was revealed on a show car, but Aston Martin has now become the seventh team to present its 2025 machine.
Aston Martin is aiming to improve upon a challenging season last time around, which saw it accrue 186 points fewer than it had done in 2024 despite retaining fourth place.
The British marque endured more trouble with mid-season developments, prompting Dan Fallows vacating his role as Technical Director to precede several other changes.
Mike Krack has since moved to a trackside-orientated position, with Andy Cowell, who arrived in October, replacing him as Team Principal alongside his duty as group CEO.
Aston Martin’s restructuring comes amid the squad’s desire to deliver on the ambition to become a title-challenging outfit once an overhaul to the regulations occurs in 2026.
But despite that representing a golden chance to close a sizeable gap to the leaders, Aston Martin has committed to an extensive overhaul with the successor to the AMR24.
Aston Martin wants more benign 2025 car
Cowell explained that Aston Martin has sought to make the AMR25 a more benign car than its capricious predecessor, which induced more incidents between its drivers.
“I think we’ve got a reasonable understanding on last year’s car,” Cowell told media including Motorsport Week at the F1 75 launch event in London last week.
“And what we’ve worked on through the winter is to try and create a car that is more stable through a corner, is more predictable to drive through the race.
“We feel that that will reward us well with regards to race performance, as well as several areas where we can see that there were improvements to make.
“So we’ve worked on that as well through the winter. The aerodynamic package of the car is close to 100 per cent new, a huge amount of effort put in at the campus by everyone.
“The aero release points were later than we’ve ever done before with a car and that’s thanks to the investment that’s been put into the campus and the capability of the operations team in particular, but also the design group.
“Both those groups have enabled the aero development team to spend several more weekends in the wind tunnel and I’m looking forward to seeing that on track, seeing the results, and seeing how the on-track results correlate with the measurements that are done on campus.”
The AMR25 will be the last car that begins a season without Adrian Newey’s inspiration, as the storied designer will take up his role as Managing Technical Partner next month.
The Briton, 65, will be overseeing Aston Martin’s work on the next-generation cars coming in 2025, working alongside Ferrari’s erstwhile Technical Director, Enrico Cardile.
Aston Martin is among two teams with McLaren to have retained its driver line-up in 2025, with Fernando Alonso alongside Lance Stroll for the third successive season.
“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,” Alonso said.
“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.”
Stroll added: “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.”
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