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Aston Martin team principal Andy Cowell has highlighted his effort to rally together his team in a bid to launch itself into a championship-competing position. The Silvestone-based squad has endured a difficult 2025 season to date and sit eighth in the constructors' standings. Aston Martin has employed the services of renowned car designer Adrian Newey, who is overseeing the squad's technical department. However, Newey is placing his entire focus on the 2026 challenger which is being built under a completely different set of technical regulations. Cowell, who assumed the team boss position at Aston Martin earlier this year, stated he is attempting to bring all team members and partners under one vision. “It’s about bringing everybody together,” Cowell told Sky F1 .  “It's about understanding the systems that make up a race car, and making sure that everybody knows what their piece of the jigsaw puzzle is. “Everybody sets tough, demanding targets and we go chasing after them.” Cowell was previously part of the highly successful set-up at Mercedes that held a large gap over the competition in the early years of the turbo hybrid era. The Briton is looking to draw on his experience from his time with the Silver Arrows and carry the culture over to Aston Martin. “That's what we did when Mercedes came in as a works team, working with Brackley and Brixworth,” he said. “We had good success from 2014 onwards. Nico won a few races and a championship! “We’re just trying to do the same here. We’re trying to bring together everybody at Silverstone, everybody at Aramco, Valvoline and Honda to play a big, big part in this.”