A brand new period has dawned at Aston Martin with legendary F1 designer Adrian Newey beginning work on the group on Monday.
Newey, 66, has joined Aston Martin as managing technical accomplice in deal introduced final September, after 19 years at Purple Bull.
Trailing Newey’s eagerly-anticipated arrival on their social media channels on Sunday night, Aston Martin posted an image of what could be the Briton’s new workplace at their Silverstone manufacturing facility.
The workplace included a drafting board, one thing which Newey famously nonetheless makes use of regardless of the technical developments in F1 design over current a long time.
Newey’s arrival at Aston Martin comes with their automotive for the forthcoming 2025 season already having been designed and, final week in Bahrain, examined with the Briton’s essential focus this yr prone to be on F1’s main guidelines change for 2026, when his new group are eyeing a breakthrough on the entrance of the grid and have gotten Honda’s new works engine companions.
Though they’ve massive ambitions below proprietor Lawrence Stroll to win world titles sooner or later, Aston Martin are additionally eying a stronger 2025 season in comparison with 2024 once they slipped away from the highest 4 groups within the Constructors’ Championship.
The Silverstone-based group, although, appeared to expertise a difficult pre-season check in Bahrain with their newest AMR25 automotive, finishing the second-fewest laps and never catching the attention in comparison with midfield rivals on the timesheets.
New group principal Andy Cowell, who has overseen a winter administration restructure on the group, mentioned: “Preliminary suggestions from Lance [Stroll] and Fernando [Alonso] suggests we have now made progress with the drivability of the automotive, however we have now additionally found areas that could possibly be higher and want extra focus.
“It is rather early days to be making any judgements on how a lot progress we have now made throughout the winter and the way we examine to our competitors.
“We have now been centered on ourselves; we have now simply saved our heads all the way down to get the information and knowledge we want earlier than the racing begins.”
Aston Martin’s seize of Newey represents a sizeable coup given the veteran engineer’s report of multi title-winning success at his earlier three groups in F1 – Purple Bull, McLaren and Williams.
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Craig Slater sits down with new Aston Martin chief Andy Cowell to debate his new position, Adrian Newey and his aspirations for the brand new season and past
Requested in an interview with Sky Sports activities Information final month whether or not Newey would have the liberty to function in his new position as he chooses, Cowell mentioned: “Adrian could be very aggressive, he is very artistic, and as an organisation we have to harness that, not stifle it.
“All of the those that function within the artistic space, how do we offer an incredible surroundings – each personally as you come to work, [and] as you’re employed within the constructing with different individuals?
“How can we make sure that the instruments are prime drawer – the CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), the wind tunnel, the manufacturing services? And subsequently I believe that is the factor that conjures up artistic individuals.”
When is the primary F1 race?
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There are 24 occasions on the 2025 F1 calendar, the identical quantity as final yr, with the season ending on the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on December 5-7.
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