(Reuters) - Aston
Martin announced the signing of Alfa Romeo's chief designer Luca
Furbatto on Thursday in what the expanding Formula One team said
was the first of a number of significant new appointments.
Furbatto, who will take the role of engineering director, is
expected to join the Silverstone-based team ahead of the 2022
season.
Aston Martin technical director Andrew Green will become chief
technical officer with immediate effect.
Furbatto has worked previously at McLaren and Red Bull-owned
Toro Rosso, now AlphaTauri, in more than two decades in the
sport.
"This is the first of many key appointments we are making in
line with our ambition to establish Aston Martin at the front of
the grid," said Green in a statement at the French Grand Prix.
Aston Martin team principal Otmar Szafnauer has said the team
expect to add some 250 staff before a move to a new factory in
2022.
"We are at about 535 people now and we will get to about the
region of 800 or whatever the right size is under the cost cap
and we are strategically working on that now," he told
http://www.formula1.com
The team competed as Racing Point last year, after taking over
the assets of now-defunct Force India which went into
administration in 2018, and changed their name to Aston Martin
for 2021.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Christian Radnedge)
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