Aston Martin signs Merc aero chief Blandin for 2022

Aston Martin has pulled off flipside significant visit by securing the services of Mercedes senior aerodynamicist Eric Blandin for next season.

Blandin (pictured whilom with Valtteri Bottas), was part of aero teams at both Red Bull and Ferrari prior to joining Mercedes in 2011, and was promoted to the role of senior aerodynamicist in 2017. After increasingly than a decade in Brackley — where he has been part of the team that has won the past seven subsequent drivers’ and constructors’ championships — Blandin will move to Aston Martin in 2022 as the Lawrence Stroll-owned team continues its recruitment drive.

“We can personize that Eric Blandin will uncork working for Aston Martin Cognizant Formula 1 Team next year,” an Aston Martin spokesperson said. “His word-for-word start stage is not yet confirmed. The transition from Mercedes AMG F1 Team to ourselves will be an amicable one.”

Aston Martin has once spoken the signings of Red Bull throne of piloting Dan Fallows as its new technical director and Alfa Romeo senior designer Luca Furbatto as engineering director, as it expands its team superiority of a move into a new headquarters.

The former Racing Point team was rebranded as Aston Martin this year as Stroll looks to turn it into a championship-contending outfit. Martin Whitmarsh joined as CEO of the new Aston Martin Performance Technologies group in September, a move that could yet see current team principal Otmar Szafnauer switch to Alpine.