Adrian Newey will depart his c📖urrent employers next year, and could start work with a new team in time to have a major impact on their 2026 car.

The Red Bull chief technical officer is arguably the most crucial individual signing in F1 today yet, now aged 65, 𝐆he’s in no rush to decide.

“Everything elℱse is a bonus, really,” Newey said this week without confirming his intentions.

What do we know about Newey’s options?

Ferrari

Ferrari have failed to sign Newey on three p💛revious oജccasions, in the 80s, then the 90s, and most recently in 2014.

Newey described the offer he rejected a decade💮 ago: “The promise was of an almost film-star lifestyle and the most ridiculously large financial ♛offer, well over double the already generous salary I was receiving at Red Bull.”

Doubts th𝓀at Newey wants to live in Italy remain to this 🎃day. Whether he would need to uproot his life and go to Maranello permanently is uncertain.

Newey delayed his travel to the F1 Mia🅰mi Grand Prix in May to meet Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur in London, Gazzetta reported.

Vasseur has since played down his team’s desperation for Newey, saying: “It’s not about big names. We need to pay attention on details, to focus൲ on🔴 this.”

But one big name guaranteed to arrive at Ferrari in 2025 is168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton.

Hamilton is famously one of three drivers that Newey has named as regrets that he has never worked with (the others are 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michael Schumacher and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso).

The final opportunity to work with F1’s most successful driver, Hamilton, may be in ൩N🐼ewey’s hands now.

But a ꦜmove to the iconic Italian team is far from cer💙tain.

Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna “baulked at the level of salary” that Newey wants, amid concerns the tech guru “wou♔ld have too much power”, the  reported this week. Other sources in the same story downp♋layed those fears.

The lure of the famous red team is clear.

Last w𒆙eꦐekend, Newey was behind the wheel of Niki Lauda’s Ferrari at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

The opportunity to turn them into F1’s dominant force again - with Hamilton and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc at the w﷽heel - of the 2026 regulations era is at the tip of his fi⭕ngers.

McLaren

A return to Woking could be on the cards fo💖r Newey.

Newey spent eight years at McLaren🦄 between 1997 to 2005 before leaving to join Red Bull, which were at the tim🌄e, just a midfield team.

Mc🎃Laren’s remarkable resurgence under Zak Brown’ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚs leadership makes signing Newey more viable than it was 12 months ago.

Not only do Brown and 🍨Newey share a close friendship, having competed together in the Monaco Classic back in May, the Red Bull guru’s manager, Eddie Jordan, has previously hinted there’s been contact with McLaren.

Jordan l🌊et slip during an interview in Monaco: “When we get the next deal from Zak [Brown] or whoever it might be, a proper 🐭new bike will be part of the contract.”

Remarkably, McLaren’s most recent constructorꩲs’ title win was in 1999 - when New🅘ey was at the team.

Aston Martin

Asꦑton Martin remain heavily linked with Newey as they continue to bolster their ever-growing technical team.

They’ve recently added Andy Cowell - Merc🧸edes’ former engine chief - and poached Enrico Cardile from Ferrari.

Newey would be the cherry on the top of the cake as Aston Martin look to move from midfield team to title contender in time for Honda’s arrival in 2026 - when they 🌜become an effective works team for the new regulations.

One🐷 point that could play in Aston ✱Martin’s favour is Newey’s desire to work with Alonso.

He’s been quoted as saying to : “There are some drivers, like Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso, wh♑o I would have loved to work with, but so far it has not been the right place or time in terms of us coming together.”

claimed Newey had a private tour of Aston Martin's Silverstone factory with talks taking place with owner Law♑rence Stroll.

Mercedes

Even though they're an outsider in the race to s🤪ign Newey, you can’t rule out Mercedes.

While more recently Mercedes are on an upwards trajectory in terms of car development, ♈the signing of Newey could help them guarantee a return to championship-contention i🍷n the future.

Adding Newey to your organisation could also be💫 another pull factor in Mercedes’ pursuit of Ma๊x Verstappen.

A reunion 🔯of༒ Verstappen with Newey, then adding Helmut Marko to the mix as a Lauda-esque consultant - it seems plausible.

However, James Allison is currently Mercedes’ technica🙈l director having returned to the fo🔯ld last year in place of Mike Elliott.

And given their return to form, Toto Wolff might stay loyal to his curr༺ent technical team as they emerge as a major threat to Red Bull a♊nd McLaren on a regular basis in 2024.

Wolff admitted that no F1 team could "discou🔜nt" Newey but made clear Mercedes aren't "waiting for a messiah". 

“No ♌team can discount Adrian," he told Sky. “But he needs to fit into the organisation and he needs to want it. So, I t♉hink, you’ve got to always look at opportunities.

“It’s not like, today, we are 🍃waiting for a messiah.”

Williams

Newey’s former team Williams are reportedly i𒈔n the ru𒉰nning for his signature too.

The arrival of James Vowles from Mercedes as their team principal, and the renewal of star driver Alex Albon’s contract, have made an impact inside the F1 p🅷addock.

Vowles said about his pur🍬suit of Newey in Mayꦉ: "I respect him enormously. He has history at Williams.

“And I first and foremost wanted to make sure I had a c🌟onversation with him to say this is the ♕place to be.

“We have to be straightforward. I want to make sure we're talking to him. I want to make sure our🎶 name is in th✅e hat.

“ღThere are some big players out there doing a lot of big ℱnumber movements."

Newey worked for Williams between 1991 and 1996. There is little doubt thatꦉ a return now would be a romant🌳ic option.

Although not a frontrunner anymore, Williams might be reliant on Newey fancying the challenge 🗹of turning around a former powerhouse and restoring past glories. 

Wou🃏ld Newey do that rather than join a bigger team? He famously does n✅ot chase the limelight…