Ex-Haas engineering stalwart Gary Gannon has been signed by Aston Martin forward of the 2025 Formulation 1 season, Motorsport.com can reveal.
Gannon left his earlier submit with Haas on the finish of the 2024 F1 marketing campaign – signing off alongside Nico Hulkenberg, for whom he had labored as a race engineer on the American squad because the begin of 2023.
Earlier than that, Gannon held the identical function for Mick Schumacher through the German’s two-year stint with Haas, with Romain Grosjean his different cost on the similar squad after he joined forward of its first F1 season again in 2015.
Motorsport.com understands that though Gannon started working for Aston this week, it’s but to be confirmed if he’ll act as race engineer for Lance Stroll or Fernando Alonso within the upcoming marketing campaign.
Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin F1 Crew, Lance Stroll, Aston Martin F1 Crew
Photograph by: Dom Romney / Motorsport Photographs
In 2024, Stroll’s race engineer was Ben Michell, who has labored with the Canadian and son of workforce proprietor Lawrence Stroll since 2021, whereas Alonso labored with Chris Cronin.
Cronin beforehand held the identical function with Alonso’s predecessors on the workforce – Sebastian Vettel and Sergio Perez (throughout Aston’s earlier guises as Power India and Racing Level).
Gannon’s appointment comes a yr forward of Aston’s swap to Honda energy items, when the workforce will turn out to be the Japanese producer’s works associate squad and stop to be a Mercedes buyer.
His previous expertise might then be helpful for his new workforce, as Gannon spent 10 years working as a Honda growth engineer in CART and the American Le Mans Collection. He additionally beforehand labored for the Marussia F1 workforce earlier than becoming a member of Haas.
Gannon’s appointment is the most recent change in Aston’s F1 trackside workforce forward of the 2025 marketing campaign.
Final week, it was revealed that workforce CEO Andy Cowell would even be taking on the Aston workforce principal function, whereas the previous holder of that title for the final three years – Mike Krack – has been moved into its newly created submit of chief trackside officer.
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