Long-time Aston Martin technical chief Andrew Green has moved away from the Formula 1 team to a new role in the wider company ahead of the 2023 season.
Green started his F1 career at the team as an engineer in its initial Jordan guise in the 1990s, and was part of the three-person design team on the original Jordan 191 with The Race’s Gary Anderson and Mark Smith, before spells at BAR and Red Bull.
He returned in 2010, by which time the team had become Force India, and a year later became technical director.
Green held that role until Dan Fallows’ arrival in 2021 led to his job title changing to chief technical officer.
But he will now have the same position at Aston Martin Performance Technologies, the umbrella company Aston Martin is using to try to leverage its F1 expertise in other areas.
Fallows said Green had played a role in shaping the F1 team’s new technical line-up.
“We’ve evolved the technical structure, it’s still evolving, quite a few senior people have arrived over the year – [deputy technical director] Eric Blandin, [engineering director] Luca Furbatto and other people as well,” said Fallows.
“As we’ve gone into AMR23 and into this year we have also grown as a group and are looking to expand into other areas and that’s where AMPT, Aston Martin Performance Technologies, comes in.
“Andrew Green is a key technical leader for this organisation and will continue to be so. He’s had a big input into how we structure the technical leadership of this company and he’s carrying on having significant input into the way we work, although his focus will be on the AMPT side of the business.”
AMPT is headed by CEO Martin Whitmarsh, best known for his stint as McLaren F1 team boss.
Fallows presented Green’s move as a sign of how seriously Aston Martin is taking the AMPT project.
“We’re putting a lot of effort into growing that side of the business,” he added. “We have AML [Aston Martin Lagonda] as well.
“He’s really exploring all of the opportunities to use our expertise from the Formula 1 business and the broader group.”
That stance was echoed by team principal Mike Krack.
“The organisation is growing and we needed someone with large technical expertise to oversee these broader projects that we want to do and he was a logical choice,” he said. “We were fortunate to have someone like Andrew in our organisation.”
But Krack also emphasised that Green had still had a hand in the creation of Aston Martin’s 2023 F1 design before his role change.
“We must not forget though that Andrew was quite involved in AMR23,” he said. “The move for Andrew has just happened recently.”
