Mike Krack wasn’t the only candidate to become the new team boss at Aston Martin for 2022. The Dutch publication Formule 1 claims that after losing Otmar Szafnauer to Alpine, Aston Martin put the feelers out to Graham Watson. New Zealander Watson is the team manager at Alpha Tauri – the second Red Bull-owned F1 team. “At first I thought someone was playing a joke on me,” Watson said. I said they want me to be the team principal at Aston Martin.”. Watson, 54, asked the Silverstone based team for a day to think it over. Ultimately, he concluded: “A team boss sometimes has to twist the truth a bit – be very political.

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