Woody Johnson just keeps buying teams. The Jets owner has acquired a strategic stake in Aston Martin Aramco and will join the F1 team's board as vice chairman, according to the team's own announcement.
Jets owner Woody Johnson has acquired a strategic stake in Aston Martin Aramco and will join the team’s board as Vice Chairman, per the team announcement. The NFL and F1 worlds collide again.
This is the second sport Johnson has bought into in about a year. He paid roughly $256 million for a 43% stake in Crystal Palace back in 2025, becoming the Premier League club's majority owner after buying out John Textor's share. Now he's added a Formula 1 team to the mix, joining Lawrence Stroll's ownership group at Aston Martin.
Stroll, who remains in charge of the team, said Johnson's 'experience, passion and investment' would help as Aston Martin enters its next competitive phase. Johnson, for his part, isn't walking into a day-to-day role — the team was clear that his job is more about growing F1's footprint in the United States than making calls on strategy or car development.
It tracks with who Johnson is. The 79-year-old Johnson & Johnson heir has been the Jets' owner since 2000 and served as U.S. ambassador to the U.K. under Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021. He's a billionaire many times over looking for places to plant flags, and American money flowing into F1 has been one of the sport's biggest storylines since it exploded stateside.
The NFL-to-F1 pipeline keeps growing — team owners and investors from American sports have been circling the grid for years now, chasing a fanbase that's ballooned since Netflix and events like the Miami and Las Vegas Grands Prix turned F1 into a mainstream U.S. product. Johnson buying in gives Aston Martin another connected, deep-pocketed voice specifically aimed at that market.
For Jets fans, don't expect this to change anything about the day-to-day on Long Island. But it's another data point in Johnson's broader pivot toward global sports ownership — Jets, Crystal Palace, and now a seat on an F1 board, all under one guy's portfolio.