After a long legal battle with Ferrari, Enrico Cardile has officially taken up his position as CTO at Aston Martin – another step towards 2026
Aston Martin has reached another milestone in its restructuring process, which aims to propel the team to the very top of Formula 1: Enrico Cardile, former technical director at Ferrari, has officially taken up his position as Chief Technical Officer (CTO). This ends months of uncertainty that even went to court.
Cardile had already been announced in July 2024 as a prominent addition to the Silverstone-based racing team’s technical team. However, Ferrari insisted on a full one-year exemption period. The Scuderia even took the matter to court, accusing the Italian of violating his non-competition clause.
In April 2025, the court in Modena ruled in Ferrari’s favor. Aston Martin was then forced to further postpone the start of its new technical director’s employment. Only now, after all legal proceedings have been concluded, can Cardile take up his new role.
On Monday, the team officially confirmed: “We are delighted that an agreement has been reached and that Enrico can now move forward with the team as Chief Technical Officer, looking ahead to 2026 and beyond,” it said in a statement.
Cardile will be responsible for the entire technical concept and vehicle development. He will work side by side with design guru Adrian Newey, who joined Aston Martin as Managing Technical Partner in April.
Cardile was originally supposed to work under the previous technical director, Dan Fallows. However, Fallows was relieved of his duties in 2024 and left the manufacturer in the spring.
With the signing of Newey and Cardile and the return of Andy Cowell as team principal and CEO, Aston Martin has installed a high-caliber leadership trio at the helm of its technical project. The ambitions for the 2026 season, when new engine and aerodynamic regulations come into force, are now clearly defined: the attack on the top is on.
Enrico Cardile studied aerospace engineering at the University of Pisa until 2002. He began his career at Ferrari in 2005, not in Formula 1, but in the group’s GT department. There, he worked on aerodynamic projects for Ferrari’s road sports cars, among other things.
It was not until 2016 that the now 50-year-old moved to the Formula 1 department in Maranello, where he quickly made a name for himself. From 2019, he was responsible for the development of the race cars as head of aerodynamics before being promoted to technical director in 2021. In this role, he was instrumental in designing the cars for the new ground effect era starting in 2022.
After almost two decades with Ferrari, Cardile decided to move to Aston Martin in 2024.
