Otmar Szafnauer has confirmed that Martin Whitmarsh is likely to make his first appearance in Aston Martin colours at next weekend’s United States Grand Prix.
The latest piece of the puzzle that Aston Martin hopes will help it compete for Formula 1 world championships in the future has fallen into place with the hiring of Martin Whitmarsh.
The Aston Martin Formula 1 team has announced the signing of ex-McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh as Group Chief Executive Officer of its new performance technologies division.
Former McLaren Formula 1 team chief Martin Whitmarsh is set to take up an advisory role with the FIA to help define the series' future financial regulations.
Martin Whitmarsh has labelled this year's McLaren as a 'misjudgement' borne out of ambition at just the wrong point of the 2012 campaign, admitting that it is going to be hard to make it a success.
Team boss Martin Whitmarsh reveals that talks took place with Kimi Raikkonen before Sergio Perez was signed by McLaren but insists there has been no contact this year - so far...
"If we'd brought the hard tyre, we would probably be looking at one stop," says Pirelli's Paul Hembery. "We're confident that we're in for another action-packed race tomorrow."
Team bosses admit that going up against NASCAR finale is unfortunate for USGP, but agree that F1 needs to make Austin event work for it in future years.
Martin Whitmarsh has admitted that the team should have been more successful than it was during Lewis Hamilton's six-year spell with the team, but insists that it's not the driver's fault.
Lewis Hamilton was surprisingly upbeat at the end of the 2012 F1 Indian Grand Prix, even though he missed out on a podium position and is also effectively out of the running for the 2012 title.
Lewis Hamilton has been in hot water with McLaren after posting confidential team telemetry data on a social media site over the weekend - which rival teams are scrambling to examine.
Lewis Hamilton wants to re-sign for McLaren, according to team principal Martin Whitmarsh, who says that talks have been going well despite media rumours linking the driver to other teams.