Formula 1: Mike Krack wants Sebastian Vettel to stay at Aston Martin: Aston Martin’s team principal Mike Krack wants a ‘performing structure’ if they want Sebastian Vettel to stay in their ranks. Vettel’s contract with Aston Martin comes to an end at the end of this season in Formula 1. Follow Formula 1 Live Updates on InsideSport.IN.
Mike Krack said, “It’s clear that a guy like Sebastian, a four-time world champion, does not want to be 15th or 12th or eighth. It is our task to deliver a performing car, or say, a performing structure because I think Sebastian is a clever guy.”
Formula 1: Mike Krack to Aston MARTIN, make a car which can make SEBASTIAN VETTEL renew his contract
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“He will not be focusing just on this year’s car or whatever. But focusing more on what is happening and if he sees the potential.” Krack was formerly BMW’s motorsport head who then replaced Otmar Szafnauer.
Sebastian Vettel, who has 53 Grand Prix wins to his name joined Aston Martin from Ferrari in 2021. His future with the team depends on how the 2022 car can bring him to winning ways again.
Mike Krack has previously worked with Vettel at BMW Sauber. It was that very team where Sebastian Vettel made his debut in Formula 1 in 2007.
Krack was also Vettel’s engineer when the German made his first appearance at a Grand Prix weekend. It was for the Switzerland-based team in Friday practice at the 2006 Turkish Grand Prix.
Formula 1: Mike Krack to Aston MARTIN, make a car which can make SEBASTIAN VETTEL renew his contract
Since then, Vettel has won four F1 titles. They all came with the Red Bull team from 2010 to 2013. His 53 race win hauls put him behind Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher. However, Vettel hasn’t won a single Grand Prix since 2019. He won the Singapore Grand Prix while driving for Ferrari.
BREAKING: Sebastian Vettel wins in Singapore!
It’s his first F1 race win since Spa in 2018
And Ferrari secure the first 1-2 finish in the history of the event#F1 #SingaporeGP pic.twitter.com/hd0VfEKJTw
— Formula 1 (@F1) September 22, 2019
Aston Martin finished seventh last year in the constructors’ championship. Lawrence Stroll, the team’s owner has big ambitions with the team. He has set a five-year plan to take it to championship success.
The 2022 season will see a new set of regulations after almost 40 years, which is the second year of that plan. Krack believes that sometimes such plans aren’t successful. He also believes that former McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh is a strength at the top as the chief executive.
Mike Krack added, “The team had to avoid falling into a ‘corporate’ way of working. The way we have split the tasks at the moment, we are quick. Even we are flexible and we can react quicker than others. At this stage, we have everything that we need.”
Formula 1: Mike Krack to Aston MARTIN, make a car which can make SEBASTIAN VETTEL renew his contract
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