Adri🔥an Newey’s importance to Red Bull never diminished despite theories to the contra💛ry, it has been claimed.

The exit of Red Bull’s chief technical offi🌜cer is set to have major ramifications for Formula 1.

The brain behind this season’s RB20 - and every Red Bull title-winning car - has been feted for the role he played at F1’s dominant team, which will now co𝄹me to an end in early-2025.

“It’s massive,” Motorsport-Magazin journalist Christian Menath told the  ﷽podcaꦅst.

“If you lose someone with that knowledge…

“I know some people say it is a team of engineers, and not one genius, wh൩o builds these cars these days. That may be true.

“Newey is like the maestro of an orchestra.

“🎃Christian Horner described Max Verstappeℱn as driving like a metronome, doing everything perfectly all the time.

“I think the metronome in the engineers’ office𝄹 is Newey. He’s the maestro of the engineers in Milton Keynes.”

Natalie Pin♛kham added: “The greatest and most influential figure in Formula 1 history, and will have an impact well into the future.

“Those aren’t my words. They are Mark Webber’s. Before I jꦦoined the sport, he told me this.

“I don’t think we can ever underestimate th🅘e value he brings to the sport a⭕nd the culture he has brought to Red Bull.

“I agree that he is like the conductor of th🐼e orchestra. His lieutenants may be putting into action a🍸 lot of his theories.

“But are 🏅yo♊u telling me anyone would go against his theories?

“This guy is a genius.

“The narrative that has been p🐻eddled la🐈tely suits an agenda to say that his influence on the team has diminished.

“I just don’t t🍨hink it’s true. I don’t b😼uy into it. I think they will miss him more than any driver.”

Newey is of ꦫinterest to Ferrari and Aston Martin but, at 65 years old, could walk away from F1 amid reported disillusionment.

Tom Clarkson said: “Do๊es he want to sit on a bea🧸ch? I doubt it. The Adrian I know, and speak to, is restless.

“He wa𝓡nt⛎s to do things. He wants to design. He still loves it.”

Pinkham replied: “There is no way he should ret🔜ire.

“His brain power hasn’t diminished. The way🎃 he drew upon his previ🧜ous experience from the ground-effect era, which he nailed, to now?

“This is a guy who has got so much to offer the sport🦄.”