Legendary F1 designer Adrian 🉐Newey will start work in his new role with Aston Marti🐎n today.

Newey, widely considered to be F1’s greatest ever designer having created 14 championship-winning cars over the past three decades, is join🎃ing Aston Martin after deciding to quit Red Bull after a 19-year stint.

Aston M🎶artin won the race to sign the 66-year-old Briton after his exit from Red Bull was confirmed in May last year in the wake of the controversy surrounding team principal Christian Horner.

Ferrari had long been thought to be the frontrunners to sign Newey but the mouth-watering prospect of him teaming up with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton will n𝕴ot happen after ꦡAston Martin ultimately secured his services.

Newey is said to have agreed a five-⛦year contract worth up to a possible £30m a year in his new role as Managing Technical Partner.

Former F1 team owner Eddie Jordan, who manages Newey, was able to help him negotiate a quicker exit that avoided an extended period o𝓡f gardening leave.

Announcing Newey’s departure, Red Bull said he would leave the company in “the first quarter of 2025”. It then emerged Newey would link up with Aston Martin in♚ March.

Newey was present at A♈ston Martin’s brand new Si♓lverstone campus when the announcement was made last September.

The task Newey faces

Given he will arrive too late to h🧔ave an early influence on Aston Martin’s 2025 challenger, Newey’s main focus will be on the 2026 regula🗹tion shake-up.

Teams were able to st✤art work on their 2026 cars on 1 January and Newey’s expertise will be key to Aston Martin’s fortunes.

Aston Martin have set lofty ambitions to 𝓀challenge for and win world championships in the coming years and the 2026 rules overhaul is seen as the team’s best chance of making the leap towards the front of the grid.

The team will be boosted by a new state-of-the-art wind tunnel becoming operational by then, as well as ꦺan exclusive power unit supply deal with Japanese manufacturer Honda.

Aston Martin finished fifth in the constructors’ championship for the second consecutive season lastꦕ term.

Newey said team owner Lawrence Stroll’s ambitious plans had ultimately convinced him to join Aston Martin, where he will also get to realise one of his long-term goals of working with two-time world champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso.

"I have been hugely inspired and impressed by🔥 the passion and commitment that Lawrence brings to everything he is involved with,” Newey explai🍸ned.

"Lawrence is determined to create a world-beating team. He is the onl𝄹ꦫy majority team owner who is actively engaged in the sport.

"His commitment is demonstrated in the development of the new AMR Technology Campus an𝄹d wind tunnel at Silverstone, which are not only state-of-the-art but haveဣ a layout that creates a great environment to work in.

”Together with great partners like Honda and Aramco, they have all the key pieces of infrastructure needed to make Ast༺on Martin a world championship-winning team and I am very much looking forward to helping ♚reach that goal."