Adrian Newey’s future F1 teams will likely have to wait a few more months for his decision, as the design guru says he is unlikely to make a “quick decision” on his future.
In fact, he continues to have a real pause, for fear of arriving “outdated” to the new team.
Although it has been more than 10 weeks since Newey and Red Bull announced that he would leave the team in the first quarter of 2025, the 25-time championship winner is not in the mood for his future.
Stepping away from his F1 design duties to focus on the evolution of the RB17, Red Bull’s first hypercar, Newey has been involved in a few races, including the last Grand Prix at Silverstone.
There he was seen on the grid drawing the main points of rivals’ improvements, prompting Sky Sports’ Ted Kravitz to say it is the biggest hint yet that Newey may not retire and will instead retire. will sign up for another team.
But while almost every team on the grid, from Ferrari to Williams, has expressed interest, Newey says he won’t rush to make a decision.
“It wasn’t a big surprise when other groups showed interest after I announced my departure, but I couldn’t possibly make a quick decision about my future,” he told The Times.
“I want a break to exercise if I want to try my luck in F1 again. I also didn’t want to risk becoming obsolete.
“There are drivers, such as Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso, that I would have liked to work with, but this has not been the right position or the right time to meet.
“I got on incredibly well with Nigel Mansell at Williams, although he had a Marmite character, and with Max Verstappen, who it was a great emotion to work with at Red Bull.
“I don’t know what the long term will bring, but instead of travelling around the world to attend the Grand Prix races this summer, I will be able to see my family. In June, Mandy and I took our two doodles Bernard, Yogi and Benji. on a week-long excursion along the south coast, which was a lot of fun.
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Newey’s latest comment on his career comes as the Italian edition of Motorsport claims he has rejected Ferrari’s offer in favor of joining a UK-based team and continuing in Formula 1.
Although Newey’s verbal exchanges with Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur went “beyond the classic initial verbal exchange to arrive at a detailed proposal,” the publication reports that Ferrari not only does not need to worry about an “upside bid on the salary front”, but I need to worry. . .
Stating that priorities have been replaced since they began talking to the design legend, he says Ferrari is looking for a “priority user over a consultant” which Newey said more about the role he would be interested in.
As such, their discussions failed while Newey’s with Aston Martin intensified, as did discussions with McLaren.
Although it was widely reported that Newey had recently made a personal stopover at Aston Martin’s new headquarters at Silverstone, the Italian publication claims that there were rumours of a “surprise ending” with Newey’s return to McLaren.
With Newey in no rush to make a decision, F1 rumor mills have time to speculate. . .
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