Aston Martin have announced a multi-year deal with the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Aramco, which has become a joint title sponsor of the team.
The Silverstone-based team will officially be known as Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One team, it was announced, as a result of the new sponsorship agreement with the publicly-owned Saudi Arabian petrochemicals company.It is the latest commercial expansion into Formula 1 by the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, more commonly known as Aramco, after the company announced a long-term sponsorship deal with Formula 1 on the eve of the 2020 season. The Aramco brand has featured on trackside advertising boards around multiple grands prix over the last two seasons and was the title sponsor of the Spanish and United States rounds last season.
The company was named as the ‘world’s biggest polluter’ in a 2019 study, with Aramco’s business activities estimated to have contributed around 59 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent since 1965. Aston Martin claim that research and development collaboration between the team and Aramco will “underpin efforts made by the team to meet Formula 1’s target to be powered entirely by sustainable fuels by 2025”.
Team chairman, Lawrence Stroll, said the new sponsorship will help the team to become a “pioneering and winning force” in the sport.
“We are in the sport to win so I am delighted to welcome an incredible partner of the stature of Aramco, who I have learnt from this process has a tremendous amount of intellectual property and technical capability, which I know will greatly assist our team to achieve our goals of winning Formula One world championships,” said Stroll.
Aston Martin are set to unveil their new car for the upcoming 2022 season, the AMR22, next Thursday 10th March, after finishing in seventh place in last year’s constructors’ championship. The team will again field the driver line up of four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll.
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Proesterchen (@proesterchen)
3rd February 2022, 16:35
What a change of pace from the pink water people to the we’re going to kill off humanity one way or the other people.
neiana
4th February 2022, 3:01
@proesterchen well nice guys finish last so maybe they’re hoping evil guys win?
Simon
3rd February 2022, 16:35
I can see why they chose to sponsor AM, best team for greenwashing
Broke1984 (@broke1984)
3rd February 2022, 17:00
As an official partner of F1 is this not against the rules? An officia partner of f1 sponsoring a team?
Jere (@jerejj)
3rd February 2022, 19:29
@broke1984 I’m unsure, nor do I recall any other similar occasion.
Silfen (@silfen)
3rd February 2022, 21:46
Sounds like a conflict of interest to me.
Duncan Idaho (@didaho)
3rd February 2022, 23:37
Not by Aramco, just ecstatic to give money to anyone that will help them achieve their aims.
Bradders (@bradders)
3rd February 2022, 21:58
Did Johnny Walker not do it for a bit?
Jere (@jerejj)
4th February 2022, 7:26
@bradders Johnny Walker mightn’t have been a global nor official partner, though, as that logo has only really appeared at Spa-Francorchamps. At least more recently.
Bradders (@bradders)
6th February 2022, 12:33
@jere Hmm, possible. Sure they ran concurrently as a partner of FOM as well as McLaren for a bit. May be wrong though.
ruliemaulana (@ruliemaulana)
4th February 2022, 10:41
Valid concern. But maybe when Aramco became sole supplier of F1 synthetic fuel Lance have a chance to win a championship.
UnitedKingdomRacing (@unitedkingdomracing)
4th February 2022, 10:48
Santander, LG, Johnnie Walker, Vodafone etc have done it before, haven’t they
Sonny Crockett (@sonnycrockett)
3rd February 2022, 17:25
Presumably the deal with that company that drowns kittens fell through?
bernasaurus (@bernasaurus)
3rd February 2022, 18:10
@sonnycrockett journalists and kittens are totally different.
Andy (@andycz)
3rd February 2022, 17:30
I wonder what Seb thinks about this…
Jay Menon (@jaymenon10)
4th February 2022, 0:11
Not a lot I’m sure. Aramco has some green on its logo, so its all good.
ian dearing
3rd February 2022, 17:37
Just funnel SA money through the parent company like they do with McLaren. We all love McLaren.
GeeMac (@geemac)
4th February 2022, 4:35
The Bahraini’s, not the Saudi’s, (part) own McLaren.
ian dearing
4th February 2022, 8:43
Last year SA’s PIF invested in McLaren to the tune of £400 million.
Proesterchen (@proesterchen)
4th February 2022, 8:46
+1
ian dearing
4th February 2022, 8:52
Should say I don’t have a problem with that anymore than I do with the Aston Martin investment.
SjaakFoo (@sjaakfoo)
3rd February 2022, 18:17
Seb is going to have to do a lot of trackside trash pick-up to compensate for this one, I’m afraid.
ryanoceros (@ryanoceros)
3rd February 2022, 19:26
Surely a shrewd business decision… without any regard for morality.
GeeMac (@geemac)
4th February 2022, 7:51
Did you provide that comment on Amazon’s partnerships with Ferrari and F1? They don’t exactly treat their workers ethically.
Dan G (@dang)
4th February 2022, 15:00
What’s that got to do Aramco’s pollution and Saudi Arabia’s appalling disregard for human rights?
People are free not to work for Amazon, but if you’re a Saudi woman your life is not your own and climate change affects all of us.
floodo1
3rd February 2022, 22:40
“Money talks” —Lewis Hamilton
playstation361
4th February 2022, 1:02
Its nice to see more people come to this group.
GeeMac (@geemac)
4th February 2022, 4:36
Typical “anything to do with the Middle East = bad” sentiment in this comment section I see.
Trayambak Chakravarty (@major-dev)
4th February 2022, 6:42
Please enlighten us on the virtues of this formerly American oil corporation.
GeeMac (@geemac)
4th February 2022, 7:50
@major-dev Don’t let the propaganda you hear distract you from the fact that Aramco is the engine of an entire country’s economy, the fact that they employ and train thousands upon thousands of people and that their projects cover a whole range of services (not just oil extraction as lazy media types like to bang on about) from power to waster water to water desalination, giving millions of people access to safe, affordable basic utilities.
Nothing I say will change your narrow minded view, so yeah, carry on blindly commenting “Middle East = bad” to any article you see on the internet.
Proesterchen (@proesterchen)
4th February 2022, 8:49
Unfortunately for the rest of us, this country’s entire economy is based on making the planet inhospitable to humanity at large.
GeeMac (@geemac)
4th February 2022, 9:28
@proesterchen As I said above, not all of it.
Also, if you are worried about counties causing Climate Change, we shouldn’t be going to the USA or China either (and being angry about companies from these countries sponsoring teams).
Simon
4th February 2022, 10:34
This is a colossally naive comment. Aramco is lterally the worst-polluting company of all time. It’s that I’m taking issue with, not the fact they’re based in the Middle-East
Simon
4th February 2022, 10:35
Simon
4th February 2022, 10:36
Well since my link disappears every time I try to post it, here it is in plain text:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions
Dan G (@dang)
4th February 2022, 14:57
Wow!
ruliemaulana (@ruliemaulana)
4th February 2022, 10:38
Nice to see someone pointing out this comment section hypocrisy so I don’t have to.
Mohammad Reza (@reza-pratama24)
4th February 2022, 14:24
+1 this! Be smart guys don’t cloud your judgements based on hypocrisy media’s way that pictures all of middle easters means bad things always, you are unfair..
Zink
4th February 2022, 21:57
Where?
ian dearing
4th February 2022, 9:54
‘So it’s Lawrence of Arabia.’ Joe Saward
Dan G (@dang)
4th February 2022, 14:55
Vettel will be over the moon 😬
Simon
4th February 2022, 15:53
Just a matter of time before Cognizant is barged out of this arrangement, leaving Aramco as the sole title sponsor 🤔