After a series of big announcements as F1 closes for the summer holidays, the biggest one is yet to come: Ted Kravitz revealed that Aston Martin’s Adrian Newey could be announced as soon as the summer holidays end.
Formula 1 had not started preparing for transatlantic races on Monday morning after the Belgium GP, nor refuelling yachts, before Williams announced Carlos Sainz for 2025 and this was temporarily followed by the announcement that Jonathan Wheatley would be leaving Red Bull for the Audi team. chief.
But the big announcement everyone has been waiting for since May: what’s next for Formula 1 design legend and the sport’s most successful champion, Adrian Newey?
Red Bull showed on May 1 that Newey would leave the team in the first quarter of 2025 and has since been on gardening leave, as the 65-year-old has been fully connected with each and every team in the paddock. however, at most recently at Aston. Martine.
And rumors about Aston Martin have been gaining strength for weeks.
Newey has reportedly signed a three-year, $100 million contract to manage Aston Martin until 2026, when Formula 1 will only overhaul the engine formula but will also have smaller, lighter cars on the grid.
But even as Newey, Aston Martin and design guru Eddie Jordan keep their cards close to their chest, it seems to be a close deal. And Kravitz believes it could be announced before F1 returns with the Dutch GP.
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Insisting that Red Bull wasting Newey and Wheatley “is not unusual”, the pit lane reporter admitted that it is “the quality of those people”. And in Newey’s case, he also loses it to Aston Martin.
“Adrian Newey, I said it at the time and I will say it again. If you work at the Red Bull factory, two words you don’t need to hear: Adrian is leaving,” he said on the latest Sky F1 podcast. “Can you believe the effect of those words?Adrien going? Oh, no.
“So with Newey leaving and potentially moving to Aston Martin, the latest hot rumor that he has signed his contracts will be announced at the end of the summer holidays – we’ll see if that turns out to be true or not. “
Newey had been linked to Ferrari, McLaren and even Williams, but now the links are with Aston Martin.
Kravitz says Aston Martin technical director and former Red Bull driver Dan Fallows told him he would “be pleased to work” with Newey if it happened.
“I think Newey is more dependent on the environment. . . obviously, monetary rewards are vital in terms of price for a team, and if you win world championships, it raises that price to the team,” Kravitz said.
“I think it’s more vital to the other people you work with, the environment you work in and the position you work in.
“If you take a look at the investment that has already been made in Aston Martin, if you take a look at their factory, they already have Dan Fallows who they have worked effectively with at Red Bull Racing.
“I imagine I would have spoken to Dan Fallows. Would I have shown Dan Fallows where I come from in this position?How is it going?
“And Dan Fallows talked about it in Hungría. De fact, I said, ‘Would you be happy, you know, to bring him back?’
“And Fallows said, ‘Look, what you have to perceive is that Adrian is a relentless, unstoppable competitor in Formula One, and I’d be surprised if he didn’t sign up for another team. ‘And in fact we would love to paint with Adrian at Aston Martin.
“And you know, we’ve all had conversations with other people at Aston Martin about what can be offered to someone like Newey and we’ve said, ‘Listen, come in, be a figurehead, sprinkle your magic dust here and there, put ‘Our people are on the right track and we think we have the ability to do the rest with Fallows and the team that’s already there. ‘
“And yes, I think it’s a matter of judgment, it’s for Newey where he needs to feel satisfied to finish and the current leader, if the rumours are to be believed, is Aston Martin, however, it could be either team.
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