2024-04-26 08:46:39
LThe market bomb has gone off. It is not about signing a driver, but rather Adrian Newey’s possible departure from Red Bull. The loss of the renowned engineer could be on par with a loss of Max Verstappen, since it is the thinking mind of many of the fastest machines in Formula 1 history.
Brits He has a contract with Red Bull, But it is said that the power struggle that has broken out at Red Bull, with the “Horner case”, has disappointed him, and that, aged 65, he wants to seek new adventures. When he renewed in mid-2023, he signed a very complex deal, which could make it very difficult for him to leave the team based in Milton Keyes. There are solutions, yes, and they all involve money.
With this new contract, the current one, he can suffer the famous “gardening” in F1, a clause which could prevent him from joining a rival Red Bull team for 12 months if he leaves the teamor, which would make him unavailable until 2027. If the technical director wants to leave the Austrian team, he will have to come to an agreement with the same team, for a lot of money, of course.
There has still been no formal communication to leave the team, either Nor has he submitted any resignation. Reports that emerged Thursday said Newey had explained his desire to leave the team privately to some workers.
Ferrari and Aston Martin, the preferred options
The news that Adrian Newey wants to leave Red Bull has fueled the rumors even furthera possible arrival at Ferrari or Aston Martin, since both teams have tried to sign him. The two teams have big goals for 2026 and Newey will be a key piece.
In Maranello, the 2026 car is important, because there is a change in the regulations and they want to return to glory many years later. So it would be important for them that the British engineer joins the team in 2025 and very soon, to start working on what could be the Italians’ return to the top.
So the exuberant horse team already know that if they want to bring in the technical director of Red Bull, they will have to spend a large amount of money, not only for his salary, but so that he can leave his current team and work with them from now on. That must be taken into account If Red Bull blocks Newey until 2027, he will join a new team already thinking about the 2028 carwhere he would also be close to 70 years old and could be approaching retirement.
Nor should we rule out Aston Martin, as this year They have made a good offer to the engineer, although Red Bull refused it. In addition, they have the attraction of being based in Silverstone and the change for Newey would not be so drastic, since if he joined Ferrari he would have to move from the UK to Maranello. He also has old acquaintances in Lawrence Stroll’s team, such as Dan Fallows, with whom he worked in the past.
A complicated deal
Therefore, the situation is clear. The only solution is to “remove” Newey from Red Bull if, as said, he wants to leave the team, is to pay a large sum of money so that all interested parties (Newey, Red Bull and the new team) come to an agreement to terminate the current contract.
An agreement with these qualities will prove to be very expensive, we are talking about astronomical figures and one of the biggest agreements, in terms of engineers, in the history of F1, since in Red Bull They wouldn’t be interested at all in letting Newey go to one of their biggest rivals.
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