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What Adrian Newey should do next

With news that Adrian Newey will step away from F1, speculation is rife about what Red Bull will get him to do in his 'new technology' role. JONATHAN NOBLE looks at one of the possibilities

Will it be a yacht? Will it be a spaceship? Will it be a road car?

For now Red Bull is keeping schtum about exactly what 'new technology' projects Adrian Newey is going to be working on when he starts the transition to a life no longer fully focused on Formula 1. There will be no official word about what it is until later this summer.

But for a man who's so frustrated with the handcuffs that have been clamped down on his innovation by ever-tighter Formula 1 restrictions, what he should do is be given a clean sheet of paper for his drawing board to come up with the ultimate racing car. Forget being confined by maximum wing sizes, fuel-flow restrictions and a ban on clever technology, Newey should be given one simple task: make it extreme.

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Author Jonathan Noble

Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.