{"id":420326,"date":"2026-01-20T00:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/420326\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T00:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:34:10","slug":"aston-martin-issues-statement-after-unexpected-withdrawal-from-formula-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/420326\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Martin issues statement after unexpected withdrawal from Formula 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after the news leaked, Aston Martin, which is also owned by Lawrence Stroll, the same as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1\" title=\"F1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> team, has now issued a statement. The team has told GPblog: &#8220;The agreement between Aston Martin and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/formula-1\" title=\"Formula 1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1<\/a> for the provision of the official FIA Safety and Medical Car ended at the end of the 2025 season.&#8221;It is not entirely clear why Aston Martin decided against extending the agreement, especially with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1\" title=\"F1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> enjoying considerable attraction from fans across the world.Mercedes were the exclusive provider of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1\" title=\"F1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a>&#8216;s safety car since 1996 until the joint-deal with Aston Martin started in 2021.Want to stay up to date on news about Max Verstappen and the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/nl\/f1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> cars? Listen to GPblog\u2019s brand-new podcast covering all developments within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/nl\/formule-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1<\/a>. Editor-in-chief Tim Kraaij, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1\" title=\"F1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> purist Gandor Bronkhorst, and host Thierry Bakker discuss the ins and outs of motorsport. Listen to the new episode below on YouTube or find it on<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/6s5pxV8uc7pg9k3HyGgpyD?si=94d5efd041234f32\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hours after the news leaked, Aston Martin, which is also owned by Lawrence Stroll, the same as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[879,49,48,578,28673,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-420326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-news","13":"tag-formula-1","14":"tag-formula1","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}