Adrien Newey He decided on the Aston Martin project. He will leave Red Bull and work with Fernando Alonso starting in March next year. But many teams on the grid tried to convince him. Also Williamseven if Carlos Sainz’s future team does not feel “prepared” to welcome the great Formula 1 engineer.
That’s what he said James Vowles: “To Williams “We weren’t prepared for someone like Newey…”
“We still had to do a lot of work before we could offer someone of his caliber the right environment. Sometimes you have to sacrifice in the short term to gain in the long term,” he said in comments reported in ‘Auto Motor und Sport’.
The decision not to talk about his signing has nothing to do with the team’s budget: “It has nothing to do with money, even if in the end there was an auction at which we didn’t want to continue participating in. I want people who believe in our project.”
“It would have overwhelmed our team and it could have had the opposite effect. I would have ended up frustrated“, he explains.
Additionally, this coincides with Ferrari’s talk about “teaming up” and not betting on just one person: “I don’t want to build an infrastructure that depends on one person. Williams is not about me, driver or engineer, it will be a team of a thousand people working together. »
