Stroll confirms Horner will not join Aston Martin

Lawrence Stroll, the proprietor of Aston Martin, made it wide that Christian Horner volition not instrumentality immoderate presumption successful the team. This accusation was transmitted by sources from the Losail way during the Qatar Grand Prix. Although speculation astir the aboriginal of the erstwhile Red Bull brag has been contiguous for immoderate time, Stroll firmly enactment an extremity to each rumours.

Horner has been mentioned respective times successful the discourse of Aston Martin, contempt Andy Cowell saying successful Singapore that specified a determination is not planned. Rumors resurfaced erstwhile Aston Martin announced that Adrian Newey would instrumentality connected the relation of squad main from the 2026 season. Questions arose arsenic to whether Newey could grip each the duties of a squad main — meetings, sponsorship duties, connection with the F1 Commission and the media.

This opened speculation that Horner could instrumentality implicit immoderate of the tasks done a higher function. However, sources assertion that Stroll did not springiness the greenish airy for specified a scenario. During an interior gathering astatine the mill facility, the squad proprietor made it wide to employees that Horner would not beryllium coming to Aston Martin; the connection was to enactment each the rumours to rest.

However, the duties of the squad main volition beryllium practically divided. Newey volition absorption connected the plan of the 2026 car and the method department, and immoderate of the tasks could beryllium taken implicit by elder management. Mike Krack already handles immoderate of the media duties, and the sanction of Andreas Seidl, the erstwhile McLaren boss, has besides been mentioned successful interior discussions.

Newey said: “Given that I volition decidedly beryllium attending the aboriginal races, my moving docket volition not alteration overmuch due to the fact that I would beryllium determination anyway. So I tin instrumentality connected that portion excessively — isolated from the information that I volition person to speech to you.”

New role

The caller role, helium added, volition not impact his plan work, which remains his priority. “That is what I privation and request to bash to support the absorption connected the plan of the car. That is what gets maine up each morning. I americium determined not to dilute that.”

Horner, connected the different hand, is inactive looking for ways to instrumentality to Formula 1, ideally successful a elder relation with an ownership stake, but Stroll has made it wide that specified an enactment is not imaginable astatine Aston Martin.