Former McLaren F1 mechanic Marc Prie🍌stley has warned Aston Martin that signing Adrian Newey won’t necessarily resolve their current lack of form.

In September 2024, Aston Martin announced Newey as the📖ir Managingཧ Technical Partner. 

Newey will lead Aston Martin’s design team, o𝓀fficially assuming the role later th🧜is year.

However, Priestley has warned that Newey alone won’t guarantee Aston Martin’s future succes𓃲s.

Speaking to , Priestley said: “Adrian Newey is a f♎antastic en🍌gineer and has a brilliant mind, but one individual does not guarantee success when developing a new F1 car.

“I'm not saying that Aston Martin don't have a great team, but we've seen evidence that they have been pretty unsuccessful in designing a goo💝d car and then developing that car throughout the season.

“Newey is joining a team with very limited suc🧸cess, but Aston Martin have jus𒁃t attained new state-of-the-art factories, and the team is growing rapidly.”

Varying Success for Aston Martin

Since Lawrence Stroll’s acquisition of the🔴 Sꦓilverstone-based outfit, the team has experienced varied success.

In 2020, as Racing Point, they finished fourth in the F1 constructors’ championship, securing a wi✨n in Sakhir.

Fer🌠nando Alonso’s arrival in 2023 coincided with their best season yet. Aston Martin started the year as the second-fastest team behind Red Bull, scoring six podiums in eight races through Alonso.

Alonso narrowly missed out on a win in Monaco, with Aston Martin losing out on strategy 🐷during changeab🎐le conditions.

However, the last two years ꦐhave followed a familiar pattern for Aston Martin as they struggled to develop their car effectively throughout the ♔season.

Reflꦑecting on Aston Martin's development woes, Alonso blamed the Mercedes wind tunnel.

"It's not an easy solution or an easy answer, because if not, probably we will do it a little bit easier than what we have found," the Spaniard tꦆold the BBC's Chequered Flag podcast.

"I think a problem of understanding a little bit the insides of the car, some of the wind tunnel problems that I think also Mercedes faced last 💮year, in terms of developing the car. Our wind tunnel usage is a little bit limited by⛎ using the Mercedes tunnel."