Aston Martin strengthens technical staff with former Red Bull talents Giles Wood and Gioacchino Vino. Aston Martin strengthens its technical team with Adrian Newey recruiting two former Red Bull experts .

The Silverstone team, while finalizing the state-of-the-art facilities of its new factory, is strengthening its technical staff: Adrian is not only looking for experienced personnel he knows and trusts but is also adding figures who bring new expertise in simulation and artificial intelligence.

Can you imagine Adrian Newey as a “Pied Piper”? The genius has an extraordinary attracting power: he arrived at Aston Martin in March and, after a few months with the Silverstone team, decided to bring back some longtime collaborators into the “green team” project.

According to information from The Race, Newey convinced Giles Wood and Gioacchino Vino to join him in Lawrence Stroll’s team. Wood will be responsible for the vehicle simulation and modeling area, while Vino’s role will be head of aerodynamics after his experiences at Red Bull and Mercedes.

Giles Wood is a figure with extensive F1 experience, starting at McLaren in 2004 and moving to Red Bull in 2007 as head of simulation before becoming one of the key engineers at Red Bull Advanced Technologies, the factory that supplies cars to the Milton Keynes team and many parts to Racing Bulls.

However, it would be limiting to reduce Wood’s recruitment to just his previous work with Adrian because it is interesting to know his last destination: after leaving the role of technical director at Red Bull Advanced Technologies, he chose to move to San Francisco as Technical Manager at Apple on autonomous driving systems.

In short, Wood has spent the last eight years developing his skills in a pure research field that could have important impacts on F1 under the new agile car regulations, where the use of artificial intelligence and algorithms will be increasingly important in the complex management of active aerodynamics and energy recovery from a power unit that will have an electric component equal to the internal combustion engine in generating power.

This is not only about recalling known and trusted people but also about the need to raise the level of knowledge in a development field much broader than usual. It is reasonable to think, therefore, that before Aston Martin can aspire to fight for the world title, it will need at least a year to integrate the new personnel into the new, ultra-modern factory, building a staff capable of thinking like a top team.