Aston Martin reveals launch plan for 2025 F1 challenger

Aston Martin will unveil its AMR25 automobile on 23 February in a web-based launch, a day earlier than it will get its first on-track run at Bahrain.

This may observe the staff’s livery reveal at F1’s seventy fifth anniversary launch occasion at London’s O2 Enviornment on 18 February, and imagery will likely be launched throughout Aston Martin’s media profiles.

Each Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll will then drive the 2025 automobile in a filming day on the Bahrain Worldwide Circuit, two days earlier than pre-season testing begins in earnest on the venue.

The AMR25 would be the fifth automobile launched by the staff because it took the Aston Martin branding, following its brief stint as Racing Level when Lawrence Stroll took over the staff from Vijay Mallya in 2018.

Following the staff’s heady ascent up the pecking order in 2023, when it managed to attain podiums with some regularity throughout the yr in a automobile that confirmed nice race tempo, 2024 introduced the staff again to earth.

Its AMR24 confirmed promise initially of the yr, significantly in qualifying, however a collection of upgrades failed to provide any tangible efficiency features all year long.

Kind within the early season ensured that Aston Martin may retain fifth within the championship, but it surely didn’t rating any prime three outcomes all season as a draggy bundle hindered it throughout the yr.

This led to a collection of shuffles behind closed doorways, resulting in the elimination of Dan Fallows from his technical director function and the signing of Enrico Cardile from Ferrari to function chief technical officer.

Adrian Newey was Aston’s highest-profile signing because the staff lured the revered designer from Pink Bull, however he doesn’t begin work on the Silverstone outfit till 1 March.

The staff has additionally undergone a reshuffle on the race-day entrance, as CEO Andy Cowell will double up as staff principal and Mike Krack has been moved to a chief trackside officer function. Efficiency director Tom McCullough has additionally been given an unspecified new function.

2025 F1 automobile launch dates