GAYDON (UK): Aston Martin is back at the pinnacle of global motorsport after the Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One Team revealed its 2021 FIA Formula One World Championship AMR21 race car on Wednesday.

The 108-year old British luxury brand's AMR21 will debut in the Bahrain Grand Prix later this month.

The AMR21 will be the first works Formula 1 car to carry the famous wings since Maurice Trintignant’s DBR5 crossed the finish line at Silverstone in 1960.

Wearing a striking Aston Martin Racing Green livery in recognition of Aston Martin’s traditional racing colours and glorious sporting legacy, the AMR21 will be piloted this season by four-time F1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel and rising star Lance Stroll.




The car is powered by a turbo-charged Mercedes-AMG F1 M12 E Performance engine with hybrid energy recovery.

Although Aston Martin had been absent from F1 for 61 years, the company was formed by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford in 1913 had motorsport at the heart of its endeavour.

Next year will mark a century since Aston Martin made its grand prix debut (in France 1922), and the brand has enjoyed sustained success in sportscar racing, including overall victory in the 1959 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Most recently Aston Martin became a double class winner with the Vantage GTE in last year’s race at La Sarthe and is the reigning GT FIA World Endurance Manufacturers’ champion.

A new 200,000 square-foot facility will complement the existing Aston Martin F1 factory at Silverstone when completed in the second half of 2022, and the team is well positioned to become an innovation lab to drive forward the brand’s future road car technologies.



Aston Martin Lagonda executive chairman Lawrence Stroll said: “The team who designed and built our new Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One car – the 500 men and women who conceive, manufacture, build and prepare our cars so that we can go racing at the pinnacle of global motorsport – has always punched above its weight.

"Now, as the Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One Team, it has the power with which to punch even harder," he said.

Aston Martin Lagonda chief executive officer Tobias Moers said: “Indeed, the Formula One team will become a dynamic and exciting innovation lab to drive forward future Aston Martin road car technologies and performance, which will truly differentiate our cars in the coming years.

"Aston Martin has always made beautiful cars. Now, as we begin a new era of Aston Martin in Formula One, we’ll bring more innovation and more performance,” he said.



 

 

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