Aston Martin has confirmed the signing of Adrian Newey, ending months of hypothesis about the way forward for the legendary designer.
Newey will be part of the group as managing technical accomplice, but in addition a shareholder as effectively – a primary for him in his almost-40-year F1 profession, which has additionally included championship-winning stints with Williams and McLaren within the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s.
“I’m thrilled to be becoming a member of the Aston Martin Aramco Components One Workforce,” stated Newey. “I’ve been massively impressed and impressed by the eagerness and dedication that Lawrence brings to the whole lot he’s concerned with. Lawrence is decided to create a world-beating group. He’s the one majority group proprietor who’s actively engaged within the sport.
“His dedication is demonstrated within the improvement of the brand new AMR Expertise Campus and wind tunnel at Silverstone, which aren’t solely cutting-edge however have a format that creates a terrific setting to work in.
“Along with nice companions like Honda and Aramco, they’ve all the important thing items of infrastructure wanted to make Aston Martin a world championship-winning group and I’m very a lot trying ahead to serving to attain that objective.”
Newey’s signing is the newest assertion of intent by the group led by Lawrence Stroll, which moved into a brand new manufacturing facility final season, is at the moment constructing a brand new wind tunnel and has signed a manufacturing facility engine cope with Honda which is able to start in 2026. Aston Martin additionally signed Newey’s former Pink Bull colleague Dan Fallows as technical director and former Mercedes engine firstly of 2022 and Andy Cowell as Group CEO earlier this 12 months.
“That is big information. Adrian is the perfect on this planet at what he does – he’s on the prime of his recreation – and I’m extremely proud that he’s becoming a member of Aston Martin,” stated Stroll. “It’s the largest story for the reason that Aston Martin title returned to the game and one other demonstration of our ambition to construct a Components 1 group able to combating for world championships. As quickly as Adrian turned accessible, we knew we needed to make it occur.”
Stroll stated that he made the transfer to signal Newey after his exit from Pink Bull was publicly introduced in April.
“Our preliminary conversations confirmed that there was a shared need to collaborate in a once-in-a-lifetime alternative. Adrian is a racer and some of the aggressive individuals I’ve ever met.
“When he noticed what now we have constructed at Silverstone – our unimaginable AMR Expertise Campus, the gifted group of individuals now we have assembled and the newest wind tunnel within the sport – he shortly understood what we try to attain.
“We imply enterprise – and so does he. Adrian shares our starvation and ambition, he believes on this challenge, and he’ll assist us write the subsequent chapter in Aston Martin’s Components 1 story.”
Newey-designed automobiles have gained 12 Constructors’ titles and 13 Drivers’ titles since 1992 for Williams, McLaren, and Pink Bull, with Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill, Jacques Villenueve, Mika Hakkinen, Sebastian Vettel, and Max Verstappen among the many drivers which have taken his automobiles to the championship.
And whereas the transfer to Aston Martin represents a recent problem for him in F1, it isn’t a completely new relationship, with Newey having heavy involvement within the firm’s Valkyrie hypercar challenge when it was aligned with Pink Bull.
