In the round-up: Mike Krack insists Aston Martin are not looking to bring Red Bull’s star designer Adrian Newey to their team.
In brief
Aston Martin not pursuing Newey – Krack
Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack has refuted claims that the team are attempting to bring Red Bull designer Adrian Newey to the team.
Asked by Sky if he was hoping to lure Newey to their Silverstone factory, Krack flatly denied any truth to the reports.
“We have a very strong technical team with Dan [Fallows], with Tom [McCullough], with Luca [Furbatto],” Krack said. “We were joined recently by Bob Bell, so we’re quite happy with what we have at the moment.”
Hamilton’s Melbourne power unit binned
The power unit that failed on Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes in the Australian Grand Prix is unsalvagable, team principal Toto Wolff says.
Hamilton’s power unit suddenly cut out on the 16th lap of the race at Albert Park, but Wolff says Mercedes are unable to repair the unit for use in the future.
“Yeah, that one is for the bin,” Wolff said. “It is a very highly unusual failure that we have, a hardware failure that we didn’t see coming before. So yeah, we can’t reuse that. And it depends how the season develops, whether we need one more or not. I can’t really see at that stage whether that will be needed or not.”
Bearman to run Imola practice for Haas
Ferrari junior driver Oliver Bearmanwill have his first free practice run of the season with Haas at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola.
The F2 racer, who scored points during an unexpected grand prix debut in Jeddah for Ferrari, is due to make six Friday practice appearances for Haas over the season. Team principal Ayao Komatsu confirmed the first will be in Imola next month.
“He’s going to be in our car in FP1 for Imola,” Komatsu said. “That will be the first time. And then we will run him six times this year. Really looking forward to that.”
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