Adrian Newey will start working at Aston Martin in 2025. After deciding to leave Red Bull Racing, the British engineer was in talks with several teams, and Williams boss James Vowles said he was one of them. However, Vowles admitted that Grove did not currently have the necessary equipment and infrastructure to fully utilize Newey’s talent, so the potential partnership was halted.
James Vowles: “It’s not about the money, but if it was an auction of who would pay the most, we wouldn’t want to participate. I want to see people who believe in our project. At this point, Williams isn’t ready for a person of Adrian’s level.
We need to modernize a lot more before we can provide the right environment for a man of his caliber. Newey’s performance would have overwhelmed the team, which would have had the opposite effect. Ultimately, he himself would be disappointed.
Moreover, I don’t want to build a team structure where everything depends on one person. Williams is not me, the driver or the engineer. We will have a team of a thousand people working together. This is important. This approach is less profitable in the short term, but will yield long-term success.
I want to follow my own path, which is different from the path of others in the past or present. We are already in the middle of it and I want to carefully prepare the team for the future, even if we continue to pay for it today. But we have chosen correctly where we want to spend our investments, so we are not going [по паддоку] with an open checkbook.”
Source: F1 News
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