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 workforce as managing technical companion, but additionally a shareholder as properly – 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 Method One Workforce,” stated Newey. “I’ve been massively impressed and impressed by the eagerness and dedication that Lawrence brings to every little thing he’s concerned with. Lawrence is decided to create a world-beating workforce. He’s the one majority workforce proprietor who’s actively engaged within the sport.
“His dedication is demonstrated within the growth of the brand new AMR Expertise Campus and wind tunnel at Silverstone, which aren’t solely state-of-the-art however have a format that creates an incredible surroundings 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 workforce and I’m very a lot trying ahead to serving to attain that aim.”
Newey’s signing is the most recent assertion of intent by the workforce 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 take care of Honda which can start in 2026. Aston Martin additionally signed Newey’s former Purple Bull colleague Dan Fallows as technical director and former Mercedes engine at the beginning of 2022 and Andy Cowell as Group CEO earlier this yr.
“That is large information. Adrian is the most effective on the earth at what he does – he’s on the prime of his sport – and I’m extremely proud that he’s becoming a member of Aston Martin,” stated Stroll. “It’s the largest story because the Aston Martin identify returned to the game and one other demonstration of our ambition to construct a Method 1 workforce able to preventing for world championships. As quickly as Adrian grew to become out there, we knew we needed to make it occur.”
Stroll stated that he made the transfer to signal Newey after his exit from Purple Bull was publicly introduced in April.
“Our preliminary conversations confirmed that there was a shared want to collaborate in a once-in-a-lifetime alternative. Adrian is a racer and probably the most aggressive individuals I’ve ever met.
“When he noticed what we have now constructed at Silverstone – our unbelievable AMR Expertise Campus, the gifted group of individuals we have now assembled and the most recent wind tunnel within the sport – he shortly understood what we try to realize.
“We imply enterprise – and so does he. Adrian shares our starvation and ambition, he believes on this mission, and he’ll assist us write the subsequent chapter in Aston Martin’s Method 1 story.”
Newey-designed vehicles have received 12 Constructors’ titles and 13 Drivers’ titles since 1992 for Williams, McLaren, and Purple 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 vehicles to the championship.
And whereas the transfer to Aston Martin represents a contemporary problem for him in F1, it isn’t a completely new relationship, with Newey having heavy involvement within the firm’s Valkyrie hypercar mission when it was aligned with Purple Bull.
