How Newey will link Alonso, Honda, and Aston Martin's engineers together for a 2026 title tilt

OPINION: Perhaps one of F1's worst-kept secrets, Adrian Newey has finally been unveiled as Aston Martin's new technical managing partner and will join the Silverstone team to lead its engineering department from 2025. Despite an already stacked technical team, Newey has the experience and credentials to link the designers, drivers, and powertrain partner Honda together

Out with the old; in with the Newey. It's an opener that only really works if Aston Martin had lost a high-profile member of its technical team and replaced them directly with the design board-toting mystique of Adrian Newey. In this case, where his services have been acquired on top of an already well-stacked engineering department, the opening sentence is a little bit of a stretch. But one highly doubts that one will get to write it again...

The evolution of Newey's migration from Red Bull had been leisurely, at least from an outside perspective. His bombshell announcement that he would leave the team after 19 years could not be followed immediately with a further indication of his future - owing to a suspected September announcement clause. Besides, he was likely in no rush: Newey would get time to decide what was best for his own future, and could task manager Eddie Jordan with setting the price for apparent guaranteed success in Formula 1.

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Author Jake Boxall-Legge

Jake studied engineering at university, as his original ambition was to design racing cars. He was bad at that, and thus decided to write about them instead with an equally limited skillset. The above article is a demonstration of that. In his spare time, Jake enjoys people, places, and things.