Aston Martin\u2019s new chief technical officer, Enrico Cardile, has opened up on his arrival at Silverstone and how he and Adrian Newey will work together.<\/p>\n
Some 15 months after confirmation of his switch to Aston Martin from Ferrari, Enrico Cardile has arrived at the Silverstone-based squad to begin working as the chief technical officer for Lawrence Stroll\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n
Who will Enrico Cardile be reporting to?<\/p>\n
Cardile arrives at an organisation already stacked with top engineering talent, with Andy Cowell leading overall team direction as CEO and team principal after Stroll coaxed the former Mercedes HPP boss to end a four-year sabbatical from F1.<\/p>\n
Former team boss Mike Krack heads up trackside operations, while long-time Renault man Bob Bell is now executive director of the technical department, and Eric Blandin is aerodynamics director.<\/p>\n
Last year, Aston Martin landed the most sought-after signature in car design as former Red Bull chief technical officer Adrian Newey signed on to join as managing technical partner alongside a small team shareholding, while Cardile was secured from Ferrari.<\/p>\n
Through his illustrious career, Newey has been a party in some powerhouse technical partnerships, such as his dominant spells at Williams with Patrick Head, at McLaren with Neil Oatley and, at Red Bull with the likes of Pedro Prodromou, Rob Marshall, and Pierre Wach\u00e9.<\/p>\n
Following a lengthy gardening leave period, Cardile has now started work with Aston Martin \u2013 one of the many senior technical figures within the organisation, hired to utilise and exploit the best of the brand-new infrastructure available at the Aston Martin campus after several years of capital investment from Stroll.<\/p>\n
Hailing from an aerodynamics background himself, Cardile slots into an organisation stacked with technical talent, and one potential stumbling block for Cowell will be in ensuring that the prominent names at the top of Aston Martin\u2019s technical structure don\u2019t butt heads or tread on each other\u2019s toes.<\/p>\n
In his first interview since joining Aston Martin, Cardile himself has addressed who he reports to, with both Newey and Cowell as his bosses.<\/p>\n
\u201cI report to both,\u201d he confirmed. \u201cOne or the other, according to the different elements of the work, but both are my bosses. Again, I\u2019m a lucky man. It\u2019s an amazing team, and I\u2019m surrounded by special people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked directly what can be done to ensure the various names within the technical structure don\u2019t interfere with each other\u2019s remits, Cardile said he doesn\u2019t believe it to be a concern.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have no problems in this respect \u2013 the issue, if anything, is the opposite: we\u2019re trying to find the best way of collaborating, and blending our efforts, rather than working in silos,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is key for us \u2013 and for any F1 team: sharing information, creating something that\u2019s richer than the sum of the parts. It\u2019s certainly not a problem having all of these good engineers in the same building, working together.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone has a clear remit, and people aren\u2019t trying to do one another\u2019s jobs. The key to making it work is the flow of information through the organisation. This has to be good. We need to get the integration right to avoid the misunderstandings that lead to rework, time wasted, and performance lost.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a very stimulating place to work. There\u2019s a huge amount of engineering talent in the team. The principle for me is that, whenever I\u2019m in a meeting, I shouldn\u2019t be the expert voice. If I am, something is going wrong. The people I\u2019m talking to, the specialists, should be the best in their field. Rather than me providing them with solutions on request, I should be exploiting their skillset, their knowledge, their experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
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