Racing Point will implement a three-year plan they hope will see the team challenge for victories when it becomes Aston Martin from 2021.
The rebrand follows an investment deal made by owner Lawrence Stroll into the British luxury carmaker which was confirmed earlier this month, seeing him take a 25 percent stake and the role of executive chairman.
But with the prestige of carrying the Aston name also comes the pressure to perform on track, and Racing Point CEO Otmar Szafnauer revealed how the team plans to live up to it.
“It’s probably a three-year plan for us,” he told Formula1.com.
“The factory will take a couple of years, hiring the right people takes a couple of years and during that transition phase, you won’t be at a 100 per cent at where you want to be until you get there, and then you have got to work together.
“So it’s a three-year plan, but every year we should be getting better, we should never take a step backwards.
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“Our goal is to break into the top-three in that time and be competitive at that level and have a chance at winning races and be regular podium finishers,” Szafnauer added.
“Even if we’re not top-three, say the top-three become top-four and we’re part of that, or even a top-five and someone else joins us, but we’re all competing at that level where the top-three currently are, that would be a success for us.”
To do that would mean having to close the significant gap between the midfield and Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull.
But having been known as a team to punch above their weight all the way back to their Jordan days, if one outfit can perhaps it’s Aston Martin.