Adrien Newey change sides. From Red Bull to Aston Martin. This Tuesday, it was presented at Silverstone with the appearance of Fernando Alonso and in March 2025 he will already be actively working on the design of the car. A new challenge for the best engineer in the history of Formula 1.
And in his presentation, he left a “little sting” at Red Bull, saying that he felt “overwhelmed” in this position: “As I have already said, at Red Bull, for several reasons, I was starting to feel a little old-fashioned.but for me, at no time do I want to blame anyone…”.
“I got into this position and I felt that the easiest thing for me was to sit down“I count the hours, take the money and go home at night, but I wouldn’t have been honest with myself if I had done that,” says Newey, who will also be a shareholder in Aston Martin.
“I felt like I needed a new stimulus. Making the decision to stop, not knowing what the future was going to hold for me, what offers were from other teams, if any, not knowing what offers I would have outside of Formula 1. If I had to say I had a great career and I was going to sail… I didn’t know that, of course, when you’re not honest with yourself, it’s not a good position to be in and I was lucky, extremely lucky. no need to work to live, but to live to work. “It’s very extreme of me to say that, because I don’t live to work, but I love what I do,” Adrian explains.
About the future development of Aston Martinacknowledges that he won’t have much time because the teams will have already started working when he gets to work: “I have to admit that it’s going to be a very compressed time frame, in terms of chassis and aerodynamics.”
“The regulation will be announced very soon in January, so I will start with a two-month disadvantage”recognizes Adrian who will soon be wearing green.
