[Team] Adrian Newey

[S griffin]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

Newey yo Williams?

It’s romantic but likely impossible…

No can’t see it happening either

[Richard C]

Originally Posted by Born Racer

I was unsure, but I think we can leave the Adrian Newey thread separate from the Red Bull thread, as he's going anyway, and we're not on to discussing him being elsewhere.

I felt it should have been in the RB thread at first, but given he is leaving RBR this thread makes sense.

Richard

[Tourer]

Originally Posted by Born Racer

I was unsure, but I think we can leave the Adrian Newey thread separate from the Red Bull thread, as he's going anyway, and we're not on to discussing him being elsewhere.

At first it seemed too much having the RBR & Newey threads but agree, now that it is all confirmed, he's worthy of his own thread.

[veeten]

Looks like I may have been correct, according to an article on autosport Newey is just taking a break from Red Bull, and has no interest in joining anyone else on the F1grid.

He just might be getting started in walking away.

[flatlandsman]

I have said all along I think the appeal of trying to improve a struggling team would be something he would like. Trouble is that team would probably want him there all the time and I get the feeling he is tired and wants to do what he wants rather than being in the shop all day

[GTRMagic]

Adrian Newey To Andretti…?

[Greem]

Now, given all the "he's tired, he won't go to a new team" stuff, Newey's just blown that out of the water:

The 65-year-old design legend said that he was “seriously considering changing teams, going somewhere else and doing another four or five years or whatever”.

Newey added: “I feel a little bit tired at the moment, but at some point I’ll probably go again.”

[Mike Harte]

Originally Posted by Greem

Now, given all the "he's tired, he won't go to a new team" stuff, Newey's just blown that out of the water:

It's really just a holding statement; I may, but then again, who knows.

In the meantime, this gives all the teams more of an opportunity to raise their offers for him to join them. And I'm pretty sure that they have all made an approach, whether that was just like Williams' Vowles who made a "light conversation" through McLaren's Zac Brown with "never say never" to what is believed to be Aston's offer, along with Ferrari believed to be very interested.

[Peter Mallett]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

Adrian Newey To Andretti…?

Surely that should be Webber to Ferrari?

[GTRMagic]

Originally Posted by Peter Mallett

Surely that should be Webber to Ferrari?

Good plan. Ferrari are a bit full for now. Maybe he can be reserve pilot.. although Webber v’s Hamilton would be coooool!

The Andretti thing is still interesting. Mr Newey engineered various IndyCars for father & son Andretti back in the ‘80s… so it’s not impossible.

[S griffin]

I’d like to see Newey try a new challenge in a new series personally

[flatlandsman]

I said form the start of this I would love hi to go to a small team and try and engineer them up the grid!

Kind of a reverse of what he sis with Leyton House, he was not the established name he was now, then, but that car was amazing, and were it not for awful luck ad perhaps poor reliability they could have really sprung a surprise more than they did, I would love him to go to a new team and try and make them hit the ground so well. I would imagine also this will not be a decision about money, Newey strikes me as a man motivated largely by other things, the atmosphere, the people and the objective, this is something he has never really done before.

[Greem]

I think that's exactly what Newey did when he joined RBR in 2005, taking a struggling team formed from the ashes of Jaguar Racing, turning them into multiple world champions.

Granted, the success didn't come immediately but one could argue that the RB3 and RB4 were designed and built during a period of transition, before the RB5 brought a modicum of success and then the years that followed saw them dominate.

Would I like him to do that again? You bet.

[v8supes]

Williams Documentary featuring Adrian Newey from 1993!

Pretty interesting https://youtu.be/SyveFhUfl2g?si=gWYZ9Rc0CpYCvfcb