Adrian Newey: Aston Martin confirm signing of Formula 1 designer
Adrian Newey: Aston Martin confirm signing of Formula 1 designer
Adrian Newey says he has joined Aston Martin to help lead them to the Formula 1 World Championship.
Anyone else surprised at the short gardening leave? Him starting in March changes things. I thought he would be out at least until September of 2025,which would hurt his participation in the 2026 design. If, however, he does start in March, he can absolutely be a major part of the redesign and that changes the calculations for who might be a force in 2026.
Anyone else surprised at the short gardening leave?
Well, technically he's already on gardening leave as he's been put to work on the hyper car project for a few months now and has not been involved with the F1 side of Red Bull since.
Anyone else surprised at the short gardening leave?
Yep, I am. How much leverage did he have or how much money did he give up to keep it that short?
I think it was reported when they announced his exit at Red Bull that he was able to secure really favorable conditions.
He had a lot of leverage due to their ongoing hypercar project they wanted him to finish.
March 25 is a little late if the concept for 26 is in a fundamental direction he thinks is crap, its like not impossible but they would be unlikely to hit the first race with a class leading car. I guess Aston could save up budget, wind tunnel time, and super computer runs until he starts then try and run faster than everyone else. One things for sure, going to be exciting to see the order in 26 as this is now going to be a major shake up.
100%, but I was imagining that, since Newey is still around the F1 team during races, he would be forced to sit out 2025, which would mean he would join AM even later in the process.
March is late but much better than in the 4th trimester or something like it.
But yeah, it will be exciting, just hoping there is no one that hits the bullseye and totally dominates at the start.
I'm very surprise with the fact that Adrian accepted design a car for Lance Stroll. But, if he starts working at Aston Martin next year, maybe the team can do a better season than this year.
He would design a car for Satan if Lawrence still paid 30 million, gave him shares, gave him authority over his dept. and some people who tried to run away from him (Fallows CANNOT be happy), allowed him to remain at home, etc.
Lance is no all-time great, but it 100% beats designing cars at Williams for better drivers with a much shittier infrastructure. Or having to move to Italy (which anyone not willing to do is clearly insane, but that's another matter) when he does not want to, having to play office politics at Ferrari, etc.