Aston Martin appoints Mike Krack as F1 team principal

Krack has followed a similar career path to McLaren team boss Andreas Seidl, having worked with BMW in F1 early in his career before gaining experience in other categories.

He joined Sauber in 2001 and rose to the position of chief engineer in the works BMW era, and spent some time working with current Aston river Sebastian Vettel.

He left Sauber in 2009 and had spells in F3 and the DTM before joining the Porsche WEC team as head of track engineering in 2012, working…