Aston Martin engineer Tom McCullough to leave after 2026

Long-serving Aston Martin engineer Tom McCullough is reportedly set to leave the team at the end of the 2026 Formula 1 season, concluding a 13-year tenure with the Silverstone-based squad. The departure, which has not been officially confirmed by the team, marks the end of McCullough's time with an organization he joined in 2014 when it was known as Force India, and which he remained with through its subsequent transitions to Racing Point and Aston Martin.

McCullough, a veteran engineer with over two decades of experience in Formula 1, became a key part of the team's senior leadership in 2018 when he was appointed performance director. He served in that role until the end of 2024, overseeing car performance and race weekend operations. His responsibilities shifted at the start of 2025 as part of a broader management restructuring initiated by then-CEO Andy Cowell.

Under that reorganization, Mike Krack was appointed chief trackside officer and assumed many of McCullough's former duties. McCullough subsequently moved to focus on Aston Martin's Performance Technologies division, where he spent the last 20 months overseeing the expansion of the team's ventures into other racing...