Every F1 team principal as Aston Martin replace Mike Krack and another change on horizon
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The drivers are always the start of the show in Formula 1, but it remains very much a team sport. Most outfits have upwards of 1,000 people working towards achieving success on track. Some of them travel to races but more are far less visible, beavering away at back at the factory to provide as much support and performance assistance as possible from afar.
In charge of running that whole process is the team principal. Most teams have one, though their actual roles and responsibilities very quite significantly up and down the pit lane. One of the few constants is that the buck stops with them when it comes to results.
And Mike Krack has learned that the hard way after an underwhelming 2024 campaign for Aston Martin. It was announced on Friday that he has effectively been demoted to a newly-created 'chief trackside officer' role while chief executive Andy Cowell assumes the TP role. Mirror Sport has taken a look at the other top bosses up and down the grid in 2025.
Zak Brown is probably the most visible of McLaren's F1 leaders, but he is the chief executive of the team. Former Ferrari engineer Andrea Stella is the one in the team principal hot seat, having been promoted in December 2022 following the departure of predecessor Andreas Seidl. Stella comes into 2025 having guided his team to its first constructors' title since 1998 last term.
Larger-than-life Frederic Vasseur is Lewis Hamilton's first team principal at Ferrari, but they are no strangers to one another. The Frenchman was his boss in 2006 when the Brit was racing in GP2 and chasing his F1 dream. Seven drivers' championship titles later, 40-year-old Hamilton is back working with Vasseur again in the hope of making it eight before he retires.
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