May 7 Engineers at Aston Martin have become 'extremely demoralised' after new team owner Lawrence Stroll's fast-track plan for a competitive car backfired. That is the view of former F1 team boss Colin Kolles, who has been firing barbs at both Stroll and Aston Martin shareholder Toto Wolff recently. For instance, he said Mercedes boss Wolff is billionaire Stroll's 'lap dog', and accused Aston Martin of only signing Sebastian Vettel in order to make Lance Stroll look better. Now, he has told Sport1 that Lawrence Stroll overruled the Silverstone based team's technical strategy by forcing the ‘pink Mercedes' on them last year. 'In the past, the engineers were allowed to develop...
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