Aston Martin vague about interest in Newey: 'I said that already, didn't I?'

Asked about how much Aston Martin is trying to contract the designer, Krack says: "If someone like that is leaving a team, it's always causing the, say, the turmoil that it is creating. I think we speak about nothing else about last two weeks in the media, which is good because we speak about Formula One. But then, yes, I already confirmed a couple of weeks ago. I think it was a clear answer, but nobody really took it serious. So we are quite happy with our technical team and we continue with them."

Krack remains unclear

Yet to the actual question Krack does not answer: 'How much does Aston Martin want Newey?' The Luxembourger could have simply said: 'We don't want Newey, full stop.' But the team principals sticks to a rather cryptic answer. Even when questioned further, he refuses to say.

So Aston Martin are not going to try to contract him? "I said already that I have answered this question more than once," is what Krack goes on to say about it, before closing the topic.

This article was written in collaboration with Kada Sarkozi.